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...veterans voiced annoyance when 20-year-old Robert Harold Ickes, son of Federal Public Works Administrator Harold Le Clair Ickes, after graduation from Lake Forest (Ill.) College, appeared in Medford, Mass, with a letter from his father which landed him a $29-a-week job as an inspection clerk on a $3,000,000 PWA sewer project...
...treacherous aristocrat who has run through two fortunes, abandoned his children, left his wife in a state of dull, stupefied despair. At a ball given for Admiral Nelson on his return from the Battle of the Nile, Luisa meets Fernando Ferri, an ill-favored, impetuous, garrulous lawyer's clerk, secretly a radical who lacks the courage to state his views or the resourcefulness to try to achieve them. Luisa recognizes Fernando's weaknesses, loves him as the one individual who has broken the monotonous pattern of her life...
...Bankhead of Alabama to help him keep that unwieldy majority marching in line. Leader Bankhead fell ill the day he was elected, did not take over his job until last January. Last week, in its unprecedented situation of being without a Speaker, the House was called to order by Clerk South Trimble less than twelve hours after Joe Byrns had breathed his last. By a plan which Democratic leaders had agreed on few minutes before, Rules Committee Chairman John J. O'Connor promptly rose, declared: "With no disrespect to our beloved Speaker who has left us, it becomes necessary...
...even get time to get a drink of water any more," complained a clerk in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station information booth. Said a ticket agent in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal: "You see a lot of new faces now, and the trains are fuller...
Hero of the skirmish was the clerk of the court. Carefully balancing a heavy glass inkwell, he watched for an opportunity, let fly. It caught Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera under the temple, stopped the riot. Thirty-seven Fascists in the courtroom were arrested. Fascist Primo de Rivera was hurried to a clinic to have his head patched, then put back in his cell to cool off for five months more...