Word: clerks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collection of retired farmers, a prison. In the prison in the year 1895 sat a hot-blooded orator? of 40. He was Eugene Victor Debs, labor leader. He was in jail for the violation of an injunction. Back of this event was the story of an Indiana grocery clerk, a locomotive fireman, who became the organizer of the American Railway Union, who twice made the nation feel the fist of unionized labor. The second time was the great strike against the Pullman Co. in 1894 when President Cleveland had to despatch troops to Chicago to quell the riotous bloodshed. Eugene...
...young men with little except a good education, working steadily to eminence rather than bringing spectacular fortunes out of other fields. Thus Chairman Pierson of the new combine worked for the Hanover National for 13 years before joining the N. Y. National Exchange (later the Irving Trust) as a clerk. Mr. Clarke was 12 years (1889-1901) in becoming assistant cashier of the American Exchange National though he was to succeed his father, Dumont Clarke, as president in 1910. President-elect Ward went straight from Yale to a bottom-level job with the Irving Trust, his rise to the presidency...
...Stephenson had by this time bought an airplane and with one Court Asher, a onetime army aviator, his secretary, clerk, and majordomo, he toured Indiana, talking to the crowds that came out on the fields to hear him. Sometimes he talked in the afternoons; sometimes at night by searchlights. Once, at Kokomo, there were 75,000 listeners around his golden plane and when he told of the dangers of Catholicism and described his hatred for Negroes and Jews, women pulled jewels* from their fingers and men tore their pockets to give him money for "the cause." Mr. Stephenson would save...
...shadows of Brooklyn Bridge meet the East Side of Manhattan. Young Alfred was by nature an actor and orator, by trade a seller of fishes in the Fulton Fish Market, when one day in 1896 "Big Tom" Foley, Tammany chieftain, noticed a political gleam in his eyes. Alfred progressed-clerk in the commissioner's office, legislator, speaker of the Assembly, governor, presidential aspirant. The lower East Side sang "The Sidewalks of New York"; mothers kissed smudgy-faced ragamuffins who wanted to be "Al" Smiths when they grew up. Now Governor Smith is running for a fourth term...
...Rich. Desire in the shipping room goads a clerk to seek dubious paths to sudden wealth. He forces his way into Long Island society, only to learn that the straight and narrow path is, after all, the best. The little wife will have to wait for her Rolls Royce. The show is a sort of vaudevillian crazy quilt made out of gaudy wisecracks and patches from several other farces in which New York vernacular has been employed for dramatic effect. Almost all the comedies of this season carry some echo of George Kelly's The Showoff. This one even...