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...thing, however, the Court could notice without loss of dignity and detachment: Thousands of citizens were trying to wangle the right to sit in the 90 seats of the small Supreme Courtroom on Feb. 4. Therefore on Feb. 2, in an unprecedented manner, the clerk of the Court handed the Press a brief announcement...
...Chief Justice, in order to avoid an unnecessary crowding of the Court room on Monday [Feb. 4], directs the clerk to announce that the Court is not ready as yet to announce a decision in the gold clause cases and hence there will be no announcement on that...
...swaggering unprincipled clerk named Sergei starts the trouble. He squeezes the cook playfully, rolls her in a barrel while the peasants laugh uproariously.* Just for fun, Katerina accepts Sergei's challenge to wrestle with him in the courtyard. Because she has been lonely and restrained, she lets him into her bed after a minor struggle. There the father-in-law catches them, flogs the clerk until his bare back bleeds. For that Katerina feeds the old man mushrooms, seasoned with rat poison. His vitals burn and gnaw. A priest is summoned. "I die like a rat," gurgles the father...
...Thursday, May 9, 1901, a young lumber merchant from Maine named Edward Allen Pierce went to work in Wall Street as a brokers' clerk at A. A. Housman & Co. That day was historic: by noon Wall Street had been thrown into a panic by the Northern Pacific corner. Broker Pierce learned to work twelve hours a day, still does. Elected a partner in 1909, he served his firm faithfully but unspectacularly for 18 years. Then, on Jan. 1, 1927, he announced the formation of E. A. Pierce & Co. to take over the business of Housman & Co. and six brokerage...
...Pierce partner. She is also a martinet. She forbids smoking anywhere in the office from 9 to 3 o'clock. She allows no employe to make personal telephone calls except when absolutely necessary, or to write personal letters on the firm's stationery. No E. A. Pierce clerk may appear before a customer in his shirt sleeves. She has ordered that no matter how brilliant a man's mind may be, he shall not be employed unless he is physically fit. All applicants are examined by physicians; a clerk who neglects his health is fired. Partner Mercereau...