Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Easing back in their red leather chairs one afternoon last week, homesick Senators yawned and dozed through a drearisome duet by their reading clerk and the Vice President of the U. S. Twice as fast and half as intelligible as a train announcer, the clerk rattled out the amendments by which the Senate Finance Committee had revamped the House's tax bill into something more suitable to Franklin Roosevelt. Whenever the clerk's voice dropped, John Nance Garner mumbled: ''Without objection, adopted...
...Marblehead voted to allow a reproduction of that Massachusetts town's pride, Archibald Willard's painting The Spirit of '76, to be made for use in the advertising campaign of a Lynn lamp works (TIME, Aug. 12). One who did not so vote was Town Clerk Richard Pratt, absent on vacation. Back in Marblehead last week Clerk Pratt reassembled the five selectmen, read them a stiff lecture on the step they had taken, reminded them that the last time the town government had authorized reproduction of The Spirit of '76 for commercial purposes 20 years...
With his horn-rim spectacles and pendant forelock, Floyd Odium looks like a hardworking young bank clerk. But the long, sharp face and steady gaze are those of a canny trader. Few can match Floyd Odium's record of creating a $110,000,000 business in the midst of Depression. Born at Union City, Mich, to an improvident Methodist minister, he made his first profits picking berries, spraying vegetables, digging ditches, selling clothes. Once he rode an ostrich in a race against a horse at a Grand Rapids racetrack. After college and law school at Boulder, Colo., he turned...
...needed groceries, a basket of them was brought to her humble apartment by a delivery boy who turned out to be the same millionaire in a borrowed smock. "Had le bon Dieu," wondered the pretty little widow from California, "instantly answered her prayer? Was this grocer's clerk an angel in disguise...
...Blanche Dunkel, 42, plain, heavy-jawed washwoman, a four-time widow. The other was her washwoman friend, Mrs. Evelyn Smith, 46, onetime burlesque dancer, prostitute and wife of a Chinese laundryman. Somehow, between them, they had murdered Mrs. Dunkel's son-in-law, a grocer's clerk named Ervin Lang, who after his wife's death last December was planning to remarry. Mrs. Dunkel promptly confessed that she had offered Mrs. Smith $500 for the job, paid $100 on account...