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Slip. In Idabel, Okla., a court clerk reading a verdict condemning a man to death in the electric chair was interrupted by cries from the jury box. The jurors had signed the wrong verdict blank; they meant 25 years for manslaughter...
...Roosevelt gripped the reading clerk's stand, flipped open his black, loose-leaf schoolboy's notebook. He took a long, steady look at the Congress and the battery of floodlights, and began to read...
Woodrow Wilson's grandniece, Ellen Howe, 28, sailed for London to take "a peanut job" as clerk in the U.S. Embassy...
...clerk's voice boomed: "Allen of Illinois!" "No!" "Allen of Louisiana!" ";Yes."The count seesawed, nip & tuck. Not until the "Ws" were reached could Rayburn be sure. He announced the vote at 4:25, in the hushed House: "212 ayes to 194 nays." The bill was passed. A shift of ten votes would have killed it. Of 159 Republicans, 137 had voted against repeal. But if 22 Republicans had voted against repeal instead of for it, the bill would have been beaten. In the two days of debate the Republican leader, Joe Martin of Massachusetts, had said only five...
Returns. In Kansas City, a tornado blew a $270 check from the desk of J. E. Wyatt. It was returned to him from Mendota, Mo., 150 miles away. In Charlestown, N.H., a mail clerk who lost a jackknife figured he might possibly have dropped it into one of 14 outgoing mail sacks. He wrote to 14 out-of-town postmasters, got back 16 knives...