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...rewrote the constitution in 1917, Mexico has been one of the easiest places in the civilized world in which to get a divorce. About all a man had to do was to walk into court, tell his troubles to the judge, pay the necessary fees and wait for a clerk to fill out his certificate...
That afternoon the M.P.s re-elected their Speaker, Colonel Clifton Brown. He sat quietly on his bench awaiting the traditional byplay. Without a word, the Clerk of the House signaled to Laborite David Kirkwood. In a warmhearted speech, Socialist Kirkwood proposed Tory Brown as Speaker...
...office in San Salvador's Banco Occidental, he usually put them at ease with a couple of smoking-car stories. Then he would bury his face in an oversized telephone mouthpiece that masked his lips and prevented his visitors from hearing his conversation with his clerk about their financial standing...
...developed the same hard-eyed passion for champion bird dogs which The Bronx reserves for baseball players. Last week, with the town jammed to the last spare room by the annual pilgrimage of top U.S. dog men, Grand Junction's waitresses, its housewives, its postmaster, and the room clerk at its lone hotel had a new canine hero-a small (46 Ibs.) but dashing pointer-named Shore's Brownie Doone...
...friendship is no basis for business, but business is an excellent basis for lasting friendship." Thus when Frank Rand died at 73 last December, his job as board chairman of St. Louis' International Shoe Co. was filled by no relative but by President Byron A. Gray, a former clerk...