Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which sat for two short days and then piously adjourned out of respect for all the Congressional dead since June (six Representatives, two Senators). A survey of the Congressional Record for those two days, however, would give an entirely different impression as to the Senate's industry. The clerk's desk was submerged under a steady drizzle of notifications by the states that they had ratified the liquor and child labor amendments. Followed a downpour of reports concerning almost everything from the progress of the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine to the results...
Like many a clerk who was auditing his firm's books at the year's end, President Roosevelt spent much of last week studying budget figures scrawled across sheets of paper in his flowing, clerical handwriting. Base figure was $2,600,000,000 for normal Governmental expenditure. He reckoned total Federal income at $3,400,000,000?. What he would do with the marginal billion, whether or not he would ask Congress to appropriate more for relief or recovery projects would remain the President s secret until he delivered his budget speech to Congress this week...
Successful as the coach of the Sing Sing football team, John Law, captain of Notre Dame's 1929 team, accepted a position as confidential clerk of Sing Sing's Warden Lewis Lawes...
...before Christmas Eve the President gave a holiday to his clerical staff. To each clerk and stenographer he presented a book, with his autograph on the flyleaf. Next day he entertained, first, the families of his chauffeurs and mechanics, then the families of the White House domestic staff. All children under 15 received their gifts from the President himself. That night, true to family tradition, he read A Christmas Carol aloud to kith & kin. Just before he put out the light to go to sleep he saw nine socks and stockings hanging over his big bedroom fireplace...
...Paris, France a Government clerk named Chazarin sued his wife for "connubial fraud," asserted that he had purchased a ticket in the national lottery for $6, won a $3,000 prize, discovered that frugal Mme Chazarin had sold his ticket to a baker...