Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wells and Van Buren Streets, he often took part in neighborhood blackface minstrel shows, could dance an excellent jig, played third base on a semiprofessional baseball team and was a contestant in billiard tournaments. Thousands of Chicagoans called him '"Bob." In 1910 he was elected Cook County Clerk. Twice he headed the Democratic city ticket against Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, losing without disgrace. Last November Sweitzer was elected Treasurer of Cook County. Last week it became apparent that the second biggest city in the land stood to lose $414,129 as the result of his 24-year...
Last autumn word went round among old-line Cook County Democrats that "there was danger of an explosion unless they raised a substantial amount to rescue Sweitzer." Forty thousand dollars was actually subscribed to bring the county's daily cash drawer up to par just before Clerk Sweitzer left office. But a real explosion took place when Sweitzer's successor asked for an audit of county funds. Biggest and most immediate deficiency was found in the fund into which delinquent taxes are paid. In the 24 years which Bob Sweitzer had been custodian of the fund, the audit...
...Simultaneously Bob Sweitzer's doom was doubly sealed when local Democratic bigwigs meeting at the Morrison Hotel firmly decided to sacrifice one of their oldest and best votegetters on a pyre of his own I.O.U.'s to replace him with the publicly immaculate clerk of the Municipal Court...
...same destination in 1931. The King, on his own initiative, had rushed down from the royal country seat in Scotland, and it was His Majesty's pleasure that Laborite MacDonald should break with his Labor friends-the men who had raised him from a $3.25 per week clerk to be Prime Minister-and form a so-called "National Government." That master stroke has given Britain a Cabinet Conservative in fact which has carried on for nearly four years under the pretense that Mr. MacDonald, having ditched his Labor friends, yet remained a "National Laborite," and somehow represented Britain...
Meanwhile Alyce Jane McHenry continued to ride high on a prospering wave of publicity. Her mother Luella McHenry, an Omaha department store clerk, no longer has to work. Her father Paul, a Sioux City, Iowa salesman, left his job to become reconciled with her mother. Her sister Frances Jean quit school to share in the glory and excitement...