Word: clerks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the official duties of a President which take up much of his valuable time is the mechanical operation of signing his name. There is only one person who has authority to do this for the new President. She is Mrs. Vila B. Pugh, a clerk in the General Land Office. She signs "Calvin Coolidge" to official land grants, thus relieving the President of a certain amount of manual labor...
...uncle's shoe store, he got the job only on the condition that he attend a Congregational Church and Sunday school. Even after a year's attendance he was refused admission into this Church because his theology was judged unsound , but later th deacons admitted "the shoe clerk." In 1856 Moody went to Chicago, and became a great success as a traveling shoe salesman. He accumulated $7,000 of the $100,000 on which he had set his heart. Not forgetting his religion, however, he first taught Sunday school, then became superintendent of a small school, which...
...loud and declamatory. He is a modest man?too modest, no doubt ?and a calm man, and a man with a philosophy that has not worked out so badly, as will be shown. . . . "How much work does the President do? ... Rudolph Forster has been executive clerk at the White House since McKinley was President. . . . Forster says that the burden of work the President has to do now is five times greater than the Presidential work was in McKinley's days in the White House, and three times greater than during the time Roosevelt was President. And greater now than...
...Author. John Drinkwater, ex-insurance clerk, poet, essayist, one of the founders of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, is probably best known to America as the author of Abraham Lincoln - a play which, in spite of a few minor Briticisms in the original version, remains one of the most faithful and interesting literary portrayals of the rail-splitter President. Mary Stuart and Oliver Cromwell are not as successful as Abraham Lincoln, but in his latest play, Robert E. Lee, Mr. Drinkwater has apparently again struck the bell of success. Robert E. Lee is now running in London and will probably...
...English medical schools are concentrated mainly in London and are almost invariably the intimate outgrowth of hospitals. For many years apprenticeship as a " dresser " or " clinical clerk " was the approved method of training for the medical profession. Special emphasis was placed on bedside instruction, conducted by the staff physicians of the hospitals. "Walking the hospitals," i. e., making the ward rounds, to which American students are introduced but sparingly until their interne years, became the favorite sport of British medical students. Laboratory and lecture work in the British schools was weak until recent years, but the great hospitals...