Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nephew of Stuyvesant Fish (see above), paddled an inflated rubber mattress out to sea, brought ashore a drowning plumber. Learning from the plumber that his companion was also drowning, young Fish, with a 15-year-old friend and his father, Sydney Webster Fish, rowed out and rescued the clerk of the East Hampton Board of Education...
...doctor sweethearts, a taste for radio concerts which leads to bickering because Erna prefers Wagner, Elizabeth Tchaikovsky. Daughters of a German mining engineer who arrived in the U. S. eleven years ago, they started to swim at Manhattan Beach in 1928 when their father got a job as night clerk at a nearby hotel. A lifeguard observed their talent, brought them to the attention of Leo Handley, Women's Swimming Association coach. They have an older sister who cannot swim. Phenomenally pretty, they use much lipstick, wear clothes made by Mrs. Rompa. retire at 10 p. m. every night...
Married. K. M. James ("Jimmy") Lin, 27, post-graduate student at Ohio State University, nephew and adopted son of China's President Lin Sen; and Viola Brown, 24, Columbus, Ohio 5?-&-10?-store clerk; in Ashland, Ky. Said Father Lin: "I disapprove...
...hands of the "Pearsonites." T. (for Thomas) Webber Wilson, onetime Congressman from Mississippi whom Senator Pat Harrison, not entirely unselfishly, rescued from political limbo with a Federal judgeship in the Islands, had previously distinguished himself by proceeding in the face of bitter opposition to prosecute a quadroon PWA clerk named Mclntosh for pilfering $38.40 worth of Government cement and lumber. Last week it developed that fierce discord had also arisen between Judge Wilson and the Pearson Administration over disposition of the case of Mrs. Helen Dortch Longstreet. relict of famed Confederate General James Longstreet.* Widow Longstreet had had her driver...
...Author. James Hanley was born in Dublin in 1901, went to sea at the age of 13, joined the Army during the War, has worked as a stoker, cook, butcher, clerk, postman, and has been a centre of critical controversy since he began to write. His grim short stories, Men in Darkness, and his novel, Boy, won praise from the late Colonel T. E. Lawrence and other English writers, censure from Author Hugh Waipole and critics who believe that fiction should be polite. Deeply influenced by Balzac and Turgenev, James Hanley has a special dislike for the romances of Joseph...