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...threatens to name City Clerk Frederick H. Burke to the long-disputed mayor's post, and thereby put an end to the fruitless voting sessions that one gallery observer called "the most ludierous burlesque I ever...
...despite the apparent necessity of a mayor, local citizens won't be entirely happy even when this long-awaited figurehead finally gets in the City Hall. If Governor Bradford appoints the city clerk to the post, and lets the Council play around with its fruitless elections on its own time, Cambridge will loose its most recently discovered amusement center--the council chamber on the second floor of City Hall...
...Truman schedule was at its heaviest on Army Day. Shortly after noon, the President put on his morning clothes, went to the Washington Heights Presbyterian Church to attend the funeral of Maurice C. Latta, executive clerk at the White House since the McKinley Administration. The President was fond of Maurice Latta, a dour but efficient man. As the brief service ended, Harry Truman brushed a tear from...
Died. Maurice C. Latta, 78, White House Executive Clerk and its oldest employee (for every Administration since McKinley's); of a heart ailment; in Bethesda, Md. A dour, studiously anonymous "indispensable," "Judge" Latta bossed the more than 200 White House Administration employees. As official messenger, he was privileged to interrupt the U.S. legislature-with the words "I am directed by the President of the United States to deliver a message in writing...
...abolished in 1934 and its functions transferred to the Department of the Interior. "For some time it seems to have escaped the notice of the idealists then fashioning a new world, and so late as 1935 its staff was confined to an executive secretary, an assistant and a clerk. But then its potentialities were grasped by the forward-looking Secretary of the Interior, the Hon. Harold L. Ickes, and after Pearl Harbor it began to move into high gear. On February 25, 1943, it was reorganized with a director [and] assistant, two grand divisions of five sections each, a staff...