Word: clerks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scion of wealth, its owner, certain cinemalicious adjectives, reserved for scions-idle, gilded, etc.- do not apply. To avoid being idle, he became, after graduating from Harvard, in turn, a railroad-lawyer's clerk, a reporter for The Sun (New York), a lieutenant in the U. S. Naval Reserve. He is a director of the N. Y. Central R. R., and has an office in the Grand Central Terminal, Manhattan, where he often may be found. Never gilded, he was once scorched when his yacht, the Vagrant caught fire at sea, but survived to win the N. Y. Yacht...
Wilhelm: "My eldest son, Friedrich, took his eldest son, Wilhelm, to Hamburg, personally inducted him into a clerical situation with an old importing and exporting firm- his first employment. Newspapers headlined: 'KAISER'S GRANDSON CLERK...
...known author's early works. Such is the case here, for only in snatches do we glimpse the vivid characterization, the excellent narrative ability so clearly shown in Joanna Godden and The End of the House of Alard. It is a bitter struggle for Raphael, widow- er, father, country clerk, when he finds himself in the throes, of an utterly unreasonable love for an utterly unreasonable young lady, turned gypsy, from London. It is likewise a struggle for the reader...
...This man Sproule" who is anything but a self-advertiser, is apparently getting results, quietly as he always does. He came to this country with an education, an affable disposition and ability that went straight to the mark. He began as a freight clerk on the Southern Pacific. In the course of 24 years of continuous service in the company he rose to the position of Traffic Manager. Then the Guggenheims, ever watchful for talent, secured him as traffic manager−member of the executive committee for the American Smelting and Refining Co. Then the Wells Fargo Express...
Born in Guelph, Ontario, in 1870, Cutten was successively a clerk in a hardware store, a brokers' messenger boy, a trader in the grain pits and member of the Chicago Board of Trade, and a dirt farmer and cash grain merchant. Earlier in the year, in the belief that a natural bull market in grains was ahead, he bought corn options at 75 cents a bushel. Last May corn prices slumped badly and forced Cutten to buy heavily to sustain prices. But this proved a blessing in disguise, for bad weather injured the crop, and the scanty prospective supply...