Word: clerks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Legislature's Action. With the chamber voided of an unwelcome presence, the Senate Clerk rose and read a resolution by Senator Osmena. The House Clerk read the same resolution. It gave a blanket endorsement to the acts of the Independence Commission, and the stand of the recent Cabinet (condemnation of General Wood's policy, demand for his recall, immediate independence, and the appointment of a Filipino Governor General). The Democratic (minority) members made a vigorous effort to have the resolution referred to committees. They lost. A vote was deferred to the next day. Then the Quezon-Osmena (Collectivist Party) group...
Frank Bond of Wyoming, chief clerk of the General Land Office in Washington, invented a means of reproducing the sheen on the wings of birds. Said...
Angelo Raggini has until recently been a clerk in the office of Mayor Hylan of New York. He has always been inclined to singing, and had achieved some small local reputation in the Italian colony. Three years ago, a voice teacher chanced to hear the youth and caught the sound of great vocal promise. Thereupon operatic ambitions arose in Raggini. He studied and made progress. But soon the time came for him to go to Italy for further training. He could not go; his relatives lacked funds...
...Walking into the county clerk's office in Manhattan, Senor Firpo through an interpreter made known that he wished to become an American citizen. His application carried the information that he is 28 years old, white, 6 ft. 2½ in. tall, 215 pounds in weight, hair and eyes brown. In answer to the question " Are you married? " he drew a line. It was reliably reported that he did not know that in order to become an American citizen he would have to renounce his Argentine citizenship. He will let his application lapse...
...President, Mr. H. S. Thomson; Vice-President, Mr. A. W. Scott; for Clerk or Secretary, Mr. Walter Humphreys; and for Treasurer, Mr. J. L. Taylor...