Word: clerks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moses on behalf of the opposition then asked unanimous consent to take the final vote at once. There was no objection. The clerk began to call the roll...
...there a filibuster? Senator James A. Reed of Missouri made several long speeches against the Court, denouncing the propaganda which had been poured out favoring it, and had the clerk read for an hour and a half a long article by Andrew Carnegie. Senator Borah made a vigorous speech against the Court. Senator Hiram Johnson, another opponent, spoke for several hours. So did Senator Harreld of Oklahoma. And young Senator LaFollette made a maiden speech, an able but not a spectacular speech lasting three hours. He read the speech for three hours, completely at his ease, speaking clearly, from time...
...summer of '23 I approached the news counter at the Mother Chautauqua on Lake Chautauqua. "What are you wishing this morning?" said the courteous clerk. "I am wishing for what you cannot supply. I am wishing for a current News Sheet which will give me the news, briefly, concisely and tersely, without confusing comments. But, speaking in the language of the man who stood looking at a giraffe: 'Thur ain't no sich animal.' " "Pardon me," said the efficient young clerk, "but there is?here it is," and he handed me TIME. I returned to the cottage veranda and although...
...alleway although narrowness bothers here. The librarian has to be a man whose profane tasks are not too arduous and one for whom the printed page has a "slight glimmering of interest", sometimes a night steward, sometimes a ship's carpenter, or a baggage steward, or a master's clerk...
Customers of J. P. Benkard & Co., Manhattan stockbrokers entering the offices of the firm one morning last week, stared in amazement at a clerk who was putting up the opening prices, for this individual was clad like no other clerk in the history of Wall Street. He had on a pale smock with a rolling collar and an open neck-a garment of the type that is popularly supposed to be the uniform of artists in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Its color was light blue. In the office, a score of clerks were visible through a glass door, bending...