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...vote-getting side, Lapham turned out to have virtues: a World War I rec ord; a start in life as clerk of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. (he is now board chairman). As an employer member of the National War Labor Board, Lapham won praise from Franklin Roosevelt for his fairmindedness; once he was even praised as a "fair and honest" employer by militant Longshoreman Harry Bridges...
Bill Lamborn, the rotund, one-armed reception clerk who has presided at the Governor's office for most of his 65 years, has seen four men depart and run for the Presidency, and two of them succeed. He goes about his business amiably conscious of his responsibilities, knowing the odds are good that he will be serving another President in his lifetime...
Cracker-Barrel Education. What the politicians did not know when they put him up for Governor was that Wilbur Cross had cut his eyeteeth while listening to political gossip as a clerk in a country store. One of Cross's earliest recollections is of overhearing a confidential conversation between Republican and Democratic town committee chairmen back in the vil lage of Gurleyville, in northeastern Connecticut. The leaders of the rival parties had just finished buying 54 votes at $5 a head, and each leader had kept $150 of the cash sent from Hartford headquarters as a "legitimate expense...
...Conversion. "Molotov" is an underground pseudonym (Molot means hammer). Molotov was born Scriabin, the son of a store clerk in the village of Kukarka. At a sacrifice, the family sent him to gymnasia (high school) in nearby Kazan, to college in distant Petrograd. There the backwash of the bloody revolution of 1905 hit and converted him. At 1 6 he was a full-fledged, poster-writing, bomb-making revolutionary. At 19 he had been jailed, exiled...
Associate Justice Hugo La Fayette Black strode into the Supreme Court Chamber and sat down, cracking a precedent as he did so. Attorneys decently averted their eyes; a court clerk whispered into the Justice's-ear. Out scurried Justice Black, at length floated in again, now properly swathed in his black judicial robe...