Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Consul in Geneva and third woman in the Foreign Service, the President appointed Margaret M. Hanna, 41 years a clerk and minor official in the State Department. Secretary Hull was still playing chess with his Department. Having recently consolidated his Eastern and Western European Divisions into one Division of European Affairs, he called in as new chief, J. Pierrepont Moffat, son-in-law of Ambassador to Japan Joseph Clark Grew, from his Consulate at Sydney. For James Clement Dunn was created an important new post, adviser on political relations...
...knowledge that God was looking out expressly for Harry Patterson. Of this, however, there was abundant proof. He was six feet tall and able to do a man's work when he ran away from his grandpa's farm at 14, his mother having married a mail clerk and gone to live in St. Louis. Thereafter seamen on the world's oceans knew him variously as Curly, Blondy, Highpockets, Spar, Slim and Horseshoes. He got the name Horseshoes from being a scientist with the dice, and he learned to be a scientist from his pal Limo...
...interested in knowing that it was not taken from a homicidal striker, but was taken from an A & P store clerk, Maurice Needier,No. 2700 Market Street, who was returning peacefully from a picnic where he had used his machete to cut wood for a fire. Mr. Needier is now under indictment for carrying concealed weapons...
...Kemmerer, Wyo. Gazette in the woolgathering town of Opal (pop. 50). The envy of his profession, Petrie never got through grammar school. He came to the U. S. from Scotland as an itinerant house painter, turned up in Opal where the general store gave him the job of clerk. It seemed natural that Fin should tell people what was going on around him, now that he was settled down for the first time in his life. He put it in writing and sent it to the weekly Gazette in nearby Kemmerer. That was 27 years ago, and last week found...
Died. Patrick Joseph ("Pat") Haltigan, 74, longtime reading clerk of the U. S. House of Representatives; in Washington. Noted for his sonorous voice, Clerk Haltigan became famed during the 1924 Democratic Convention in New York. For the 17 days of the Smith-McAdoo deadlock he boomed out the roll call, beginning with Alabama's "24 votes for Underwood...