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Harvard-alternates--McGowan, Shirk, Litman, Grondahl, Herrick, Wills, Snell, Dampeer, Heckel. Brown alternates -- Burbank, Petrone, Larkowich, Burkhart, Truman, Clerk...
While the "Tales" were in production, he was appointed "clerk of our Works at Westminster Palace" and of other royal residences. In an inventory of Westminster he acquired, among innumerable objects, eight pairs of andirons, two of which had broken feet; two small carts, of which one was rickety; and a little bell called Wyron...
Frederick W. Cook, recently reelected Secretary of State of Massachusetts, is an authority on governmental law. After graduating from high school in 1891, he served 28 years in Somerville politics, holding the offices of assistant clerk of comimttees, assistant city clerk, and city clerk. He then ran successfully for Secretary of State. Of this office, which he has held ever since despite political tides, he says himself...
...nine Justices of the Supreme Court of the U. S. looked down upon an attorney arguing. Had a New Jersey school board impaired the obligation of contracts in reducing the salaries of school teachers who had fixed tenures of office? Through the chamber's marble columns, Court Clerk Charles Elmore Cropley-he who held the cellophane-covered Bible on which Franklin Roosevelt renewed his oath of office (TIME, Feb. 1)-appeared and laid some mimeographed sheets before Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. Presently a blond page boy popped up and laid similar sheets before the other Justices...
Madeleine Carroll, whose chiseled sophistication makes her ideal for such stories as Lloyd's of London, is badly miscast, still manages to lend her ridiculous role dignity. Dick Powell gives another of his exalted-shoe-clerk performances. Alice Faye, in a part which requires only that she act natural, comes off best. What makes On the Avenue fun is not the antics of this troubled triangle, but the half-dozen high-spots sprinkled through the picture, usually with excellent accompanying melodies by Irving Berlin. Samples: Dick Powell hunting for The Girl on the Police Gazette, Madeleine Carroll and Dick...