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...salt water was taking its place. Truck farmers and fruit growers rose in alarm. They formed the Central & South Florida Water Conservation Committee with headquarters at Sanford. They published large advertisements, "What Will You Do Without Water?" They wrote to the President, were answered by a White House clerk. They wrote to the War Department, were answered by publicity releases saying that the canal was going right ahead. Then they began writing to Congressmen. Thus Senator Van denberg heard their far-away cry for help, demanded an investigation which was the subject of last week's hearings...
...sailing ship were loaded with honey and the ghosts of the bees that made it stung the crew to death? What if the silk worms, roses, bees went on strike? What if Manhattan's pigeons were all killed? Miss Crane is fond of alliteration's artful aid: "Clerk and crier quaffed the quiet of the quarry." When she feels like it, she can rhyme "thorn" with "faun," play hob with King's College English. Readers who like lilt will find plenty of it, in the great tradition of Robert W. Service and Edgar A. Guest...
...down to Sandringham and prepared to "put the crown in a commission" (i. e. establish a Council of State to act for George V as was done during his 1928-29 illness), the nation and the world watched ever more intently Their Majesties' eldest son. At Sandringham the Clerk of the Privy Council, Sir Maurice Hankey, handed the order establishing the Council of State to Lord Dawson of Penn. The great doctor, bending over the King's bed, supported the right hand as it weakly scrawled for the last time "George...
...that is something of a landmark in West Coast banking. It was founded as a private banking house in 1883 by the late Charles Crocker, one of the quadrumvirate that built Southern Pacific RR.* He wanted to leave his son a bank. Son William Henry Crocker began as a clerk, was made president ten years later. Meantime the bank had taken out a national charter, and for the next 40 years prospered exceedingly on the best West Coast accounts. In 1926 it gained more fat accounts by merging with First National...
Father Giannini gave his son & heir a thorough grooming for the job he now holds, starting him as a clearing clerk in 1918, marching him from department to department. With no formal college education, Son Mario studied law on the side, earned a degree from Hastings College in 1920. Lame, often ill, he works into the early morning hours at his modest home in Hillsborough about 20 miles from his office. Sometimes he asks businessmen to come out in the morning so that he can talk to them on the way into town. His chauffeur drives his Cadillac...