Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laval has hoped that it might be possible to pass off a Fascist conquest of Ethiopia at Geneva by giving it some other name than "war." It might, for example, be called a "colonial expedition." Early last week M. Laval suggested the advantages of this name to Sir George Clerk, but the British Ambassador reacted by freezing up. Without exactly saying so, Sir George intimated that the French may be the sort of people who would keep the League going and save Europe from unpleasant complications by letting Il Duce have his war under some sweeter name, but that...
...Fishkill, N. Y. last month Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. gave his chauffeur a $20 bill to buy groceries, was surprised when the local bank declared it counterfeit, sent it back. In Washington he handed the same bogus bill to his chief clerk, asked for change, got it. Declared Secretary Morgenthau: "The joke's really on the chief clerk...
...Donald Budge has already collected more than 70 tennis trophies, which are scattered about the Budge home at Oakland. He has a taste for white tennis rackets; the Wilson Sporting Goods Co., for whom he was a wrapping clerk last winter, has designed one especially for him called "The Ghost." A phlegmatic, gentle youth, so homely that even his mother smiled when a friend said that, if not the best tennis player in the world, her son was certainly the ugliest, young Budge is likeable but undistinguished off a tennis court. He barely graduated from high school a year...
...only 65,147 new communicants in the year ending last March 31-31,822 fewer than the year before. The Presbyterian membership list stood at 1,959,923, a decline of 27,368 communicants. All this was reported last week by the church's Stated Clerk, Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge...
...clerk had barked out three or four of their names before drowsy Senators realized that a final vote on the tax bill was being called. Rousing, they passed it by 57 to 22, after two dull days of strictly routine exposition, strictly political debate...