Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senators," intoned Nevada's Pittman, "how say you? Is the respondent, Halsted L. Ritter, guilty or not guilty? The clerk will call the roll...
...clerk began calling, bells rang in the corridors to summon vagrant Senators. "Guilty," said Senator Adams. "Guilty," said Senator Ashurst. "Not guilty," said Senator Austin...
Saved by one vote, Judge Ritter did not move a muscle as the clerk began to read aloud the second count of the indictment charging that Judge Ritter connived to have a receivership suit brought for his own profit. Again the roll was called: 52 "guilty," 32 "not guilty...
Tortuous Trail- Noon of Dec. 13, 1934 two Wall Street runners barged into Manhattan's United States Trust Co., delivered $590,000 in 14 U. S. Treasury notes. A bank clerk drew them into his window, went off to obtain the securities the notes were to purchase. When the clerk returned to his cage three minutes later, the notes had vanished. Manhattan police were hopelessly baffled...
Realizing how coldly hospital admitting clerks behave, Dr. Newcomer urges: "Do not let the rebuff of a clerk . . . prevent you from going further than the admitting desk. You may always, if there is time, write to the superintendent of the hospital for information. . . . You may also write to the hospital and ask for the annual report or the year book. These publications contain a list of the staff physicians...