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...unfortunate prisoner who had had some unpleasant dealings with the ball commissioner the night of his arrest was chagrined to discover that his adversary had metamorphosed into the Clerk of Court...
Ambassador Gauss, who smokes so constantly that he seems naked without a cigar, kept out of the limelight as usual. Unobtrusive, sharp-faced, medium-tall, grey-haired, he has been in the U.S. foreign service for 35 of his 54 years. When he was 19, a State Department clerk at $900 a year, Elihu Root had just become Secretary of State, John Hay's Open Door in China was a reality, and the Russo-Japanese war had made Japan a world power. When young Gauss became deputy consul general at Shanghai in 1907, Teddy Roosevelt was sending...
Fire of another color fumed up last week in Washington. Ellison DuRant Smith Jr., 26, sprout of bag-eyed, walrusy Senator "Cotton Ed" of South Carolina, is clerk of the Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee, whose chairman is old Cotton Ed. Young Mr. Smith, who has had the $3,900-a-year clerkship only eleven months, has been going to night classes at the National University Law School. When his draft number came up, he asked for deferment (to Class 2A) on the ground that he has a special employment status: he was indispensable to the Senate's Agriculture...
Young Cotton Ed's request was backed by a letter, signed by twelve of the committee's 20 members: "To remove a clerk with the experience and background that he must have . . . would greatly impair the effectiveness of the committee work and retard general progress in vital legislation. . . . It is the desire of the committee that Mr. Smith be deferred." Signers included Isolationist Burt Wheeler, Nebraska's liberal George Norris, half a dozen brother Senators of Senator Smith (but not old Cotton Ed). Three of the signers (like old Cotton Ed) had voted against the Selective Service...
Moved to investigate his new-found property and ferret out the union leaders who hanged him, dyspeptic J. P. disguises himself as a clerk in his shoe department. He finds out a lot he never knew about people who have to work for a living. A pompous section manager (Edmund Gwenn) rules him with acidulous tyranny. A comely young clerk, Mary Jones (Jean Arthur), tries to teach him the tricks of the trade, lends him 50? when she interprets his remark about never eating lunch to mean that he is broke...