Word: clerks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Davis, Secretary of Labor, was frequently mentioned last week in Washington as a candidate for the governorship of Pennsylvania to succeed Gifford Pinchot. The Pennsylvania Senators, (Pepper and Reed) and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon are understood to be supporting him. Mrs. Mary Key McBlair, a retired Government clerk, 72 years of age, lives in Washington. She has a pension of $20, a month because of Government service. Last week Representative E. Hart Fenn of Connecticut introduced a bill to give her a pension of $1,200 a year, saying that she is in destitute circumstances. Mrs. McBlair...
...hero is a dusty little clerk who, through the facile mood of fantasy, finds himself face to face with himself as a boy. He was a freckled, active, vital kid. He is a pale and pulseless man. So the kid goes along with him for a while and stirs his spirit to the point of telling his boss to go to the devil and asking his girl to marry...
Garbutt's attorney, who had fought the case to the last ditch, had "one last desperate hope" to save his client by an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court on a technicality. He had sent the particulars of his appeal by letter to a deputy clerk of the Supreme Court of the U. S., to E. Elmore Cropley...
Much of its success has been due to Albert Henry ("Al") Wiggin, President 1911-17, Chairman of the Board 1918-21, holder of both jobs since 1921. Son of a smalltown, Massachusetts preacher, he could not afford to go to college. So, at 17, he got a clerk's job in a Boston bank; became an assistant national bank examiner at 23 and soon married Jessie Duncan Hayden of Boston. The panic of 1907 gave him his great opportunity. He had come to Manhattan shortly before. During the crisis J. P. Horgan found two young men upon whom he could...
...father-in-law, potent though they be, were not more noted than his father in the latter's day. For his father was Senator from Rhode Island, Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, one of the giants in the Senate two decades ago. Nelson W. Aldrich, who began life as a grocery clerk in Providence, married his employer's daughter and made a career for himself by doggedness and a keen mind. When he first went to Washington he made a close friend of General Sheridan and from him learned Grant's way of getting results on the battlefield, and Mr. Aldrich made...