Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having jolted the U. S. five months before by appointing radical Hugo LaFayette Black to the Supreme Court, Franklin Roosevelt last week chose to jolt the nation by his conservative appointment to the Court. So one afternoon White House Executive Clerk Maurice C. Latta marched in to the Senate with the nomination of retiring Justice George Sutherland's successor: Stanley Forman Reed. So, also, photographers stormed Solicitor General Reed in his office (see cut) to catch him before he put on judicial dignity...
Therefore, stay home if you can. Get a job as an ordinary shop-hand, as a store clerk, or sell something if you think you can. Tutoring or serving as companion is remunerative work when it is available. So much for the money saver...
...years ago in Moscow, Idaho, a tall, husky, smooth-talking drug clerk named Frank Bruce Robinson borrowed $500 from a friend, spent $400 of it to buy some advertising space in a psychology magazine. Reared in the Baptist Church, Frank Robinson had recanted his Christian beliefs, had acquired certain ideas on religious psychology which he wished to teach. His advertisement brought 2.852 replies, one from a British cotton importer of Alexandria, Egypt named Geoffrey Peel...
Birley, who sent Robinson his photograph. That night Drug Clerk Robinson dreamed he saw Birley making mystic motions over a corpse, thought he heard him saying: "This is Psychiana, the power that will bring new life to a spiritually dead world." Next day the drug clerk wrote the cotton broker: "You are to be associated with me in this business. Please send $40,000." Fortnight later, a bank in Spokane, Wash. informed Robinson that $20,000 had been deposited to his account, that Mr. Birley promised $20,000 more the following week...
...embittered schoolteacher. Hazel (Hazel Terry), who wanted a handsome husband with a yacht, has only a husband. Little Carol (Mary Jones), who loved life so passionately, is dead. Mrs. Conway (Dame Sybil Thorndike) is aging gracelessly. And so it goes. Only Alan (Godfrey Kenton) is contented as a shabby clerk because he has a new conception of time. Time, as he sermonizes to Kay, is a series of states which man can see only in succession, but which really exist simultaneously. Therefore, man should accept life as a whole, as a composition of light & shade...