Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine members of the Court leaned forward fascinated. Seldom does the high court have the opportunity of studying a crime of violence. The late Jeff Bowers, hardware clerk, found four years ago mysteriously shot in a Washington store, provided such a case. For if Jeff Bowers committed suicide, that was all there was to it; but if he was killed in the line of duty, Widow Bonnie Bowers had a legal claim for compensation. From Mrs. Bowers' lawyer the Justices learned that there were no recognizable fingerprints on the gun and presumably Jeff Bowers could not have wiped them...
...finally had got the Mayor. Up before a secret party court he was hauled, charged with high crime: not bribery, not corruption in office, but buying articles for his own use from a Jewish department store. The evidence against him: two cancelled checks, spotted by a snooping Nazi bank clerk...
Acquitted. Robert M. ("Bob") Sweitzer, 67, potent Chicago Democrat, longtime (1910-34) Cook County Clerk; of criminal responsibility for a $414,129 shortage in his official accounts discovered by his successor as County Clerk (TIME, June 17); by a Criminal Court jury; in Chicago. Still promising to make good his shortage as soon as his own auditors could check his accounts, Democrat Sweitzer moved to regain the County Treasurership from which he was ousted last summer when, after promising immediate restoration of most of his shortage, he failed to produce a cent...
...same day that the President had his heavily-guarded ride, Mrs. Roosevelt, swinging down Manhattan's Madison Avenue afoot, stopped into the hat shop of Lilly Dache. With ten minutes to spare before keeping an appointment, she tried on four hats, bought two. Said the sales-clerk who knew Mrs. Roosevelt of old: "She is one that either likes a thing or she doesn't. But she has improved in style a lot in the last few years, I'm glad...
...heart in French and had up to last week written out twelve copies by memory. Before making Mutiny on the Bounty he went to London, said to Gieves, Bond Street tailors: "I wish to inquire about some uniforms you made some time ago for Captain William Bligh." Said the clerk: "Yes sir, and about what was the date, sir?'' Said Actor Laughton: "1789." Gieves promptly produced the exact specifications of the uniforms worn by Captain Bligh, had a complete set copied for Actor Laughton to wear in the picture...