Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baker's statement offered the court and clerk his "most sincere and humble apology" and admitted "my error and discourtesy...
...hundred listeners below him on the floor, 600 listeners above him in the galleries, cheered and applauded as Franklin Roosevelt mounted to the desk of the Clerk in the House of Representatives one evening last week. The President unstrapped his gold wrist watch, laid it on the desk before him; removed his pince nez and laid them beside his manuscript. Then spreading his feet wide, he took a firm grip on the sides of the desk. "Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives. . . ." Solemnly the best radio voice in the U. S. pronounced...
...came to the U. S. Supreme Court, a new desk and a group of filing cases appeared in the larger of the two rooms used by newshawks in the basement of the new Court building across the plaza from the Capitol. With the furniture, in moved a Court Clerk named Nelson A. Potter. Promptly the ungrateful Press announced even the Supreme Court now had a press agent. Actually Clerk Potter had been appointed to put an end to old complaints of the Press that it was unduly difficult to see or obtain copies of official Court documents...
...Whether Clerk Potter's new job was but a sign of the times or whether the nine Justices realized that with the New Year there would be a real need for Mr. Potter's services, was not revealed. But the day when the Court met for the first time in 1936 was a busy one for Mr. Potter and the press room. That afternoon in the courtroom upstairs after Mr. Justice Cardozo had read a minor decision...
...takes to start a political organization are two members and one slogan. But to keep a political organization alive requires real money. Very much alive, therefore, was the American Liberty League according to its year-end financial report filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives last week. The League had taken in $483,175.46 in 1935, still had more than $93,000 in the bank...