Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jimmy" Byrnes is one of Franklin Roosevelt's most useful, trusted and intimate Senate lieutenants. Stunned, therefore, were other Administration Senators when the clerk read off the terms of his amendment: "It is further declared to be the public policy of the United States that no employe of any producer of coal whose employment has been terminated, or who for any reason has ceased to work for such producer, shall remain upon the property upon which he was employed after he has received a written notice from such producer to leave such property...
...lean, crinkle-eyed onetime Texas railroad clerk, Nelson had set the pace in the first round of the Augusta National Masters' Tournament with a record-breaking 66. His second round 72 left him in front, but after his third, a 75, ponderous Ralph Guldahl, whose third round was a 68, was four strokes ahead of him. Now, with nine holes left to play, Guldahl, just ahead of Nelson on the course, still had the same advantage...
...Platak, agile Chicago post-office clerk: the handball championship of the U. S., for the third year in a row; 21-13, 21-6 in the final against Past Champion Sam Atcheson of Memphis, Tenn.; in Chicago...
...abdicate. On Dec. 14 the knob-headed little intervener moved to withdraw his intervention. He was in court last week to explain his series of actions - so suggestive of a successful effort to bamboozle an overwrought man in love, especially since knob-head Stephenson plies the trade of managing clerk in a firm of London lawyers whose important clients unquestionably sided with the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin...
...CLIMBS-C. A. Tarrant- Lippincott ($2). A mousy little clerk accidentally becomes a gentlemanly crook by night, worries his old landlady, a woman boarder and all of Scotland Yard, while amassing a fortune, without murder, for a "Sacred Cause." THE MOONSTONE AND THE WOMAN IN WHITE-Wilkie Collins-Modern Library ($1.10). Reprint, in readable type, of two detective classics; with an introduction by Alexander Woollcott. The first and probably the best, full-length detective novel, The Moonstone has had a U. S. reputation confined mostly to hearsay...