Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...struck on a small, cheap piano that stood beside the rostrum and Dorothy Reddish, a young woman employed by the Washington Telephone Company, sang There Is No Death. "The Lord Is My Shepherd. . . ." For ten minutes Chaplain Montgomery gave the mourners his best. Then Patrick J. Haltigan, House reading clerk, began : "Huey Pierce Long, Senator from the State of Louisiana. Lawyer; railroad commissioner; member of the Public Service Commission, State of Louisiana; Governor; elected to the U. S. Senate, Nov. 4, 1930. Died Sept...
...clerk read, Mrs. Norton took a large American Beauty rose, labeled "Huey Pierce Long," from a small page and placed it in a large silver vase furnished for the occasion by a florist. One by one, as the roll of the dead was called, she added six other roses labeled Thomas David Schall, R. Garden, Charles Vilas , Truax, Henry Mahlon Kimball, Wesley Lloyd, Stephen Andrew Rudd...
...result of this increase of patients, the staff of doctors has been greatly enlarged. At present there are six part time doctors, two nurses, three secretaries, one information clerk, and one laboratory assistant, an increase of three doctors and two assistants over last year. Dr. Bock plans to add another full time doctor and two part time men next year in order to take care of the increased burden. Last year there were only three doctors...
...York Athletic Club gathered last fortnight as improbable a collection of international oddities as Hollywood ever cinematically juxtaposed in a European hotel or an ocean liner. Their names were Soussa, Ankrom, Tiedtke, Lee, Deardorff, Lagache, Robyns and Zaman. They were, respectively, an Egyptian painter, Detroit barber, German hotel clerk, U. S. swimming champion, St. Louis secretary, Parisian stockbroker, Amsterdam diamond merchant and one-eyed Antwerp insurance salesman. Few of them spoke English. The difference in tongues did not confuse them in the least. They had met, not to talk, but to play billiards for the world's amateur three...
Divorced, K. M. James (''Jimmy") Lin, 28, nephew and adopted son of China's puppet President Lin Sen; by Viola Brown Lin, 25, onetime 5?-&-10? store clerk; in Columbus, Ohio. Last April Jimmy, a graduate student at Ohio State University, walked into a store to buy a fishing rod, met Miss Brown. His marriage three months later shocked & grieved President Lin, caused a political stir. In September Jimmy deserted his wife, fled home...