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Turned down for military service in the Spanish-American War because of his health, Frank Hogan became secretary to the Chief Quartermaster in Cuba. That led to marriage and Washington, with a clerkship in the War Department. In three years of night study he got a law degree with the highest marks then ever earned at Georgetown. For two more years he was what Washington calls a '"sundowner," working for the Government by day, practicing law by night. Then in 1904, with a $180 pay check as capital, he cast...
Another historic spectacle has come to the screen with M.G.M.'s "Clive of India." Ronald Coleman and Loretta Young are the principals. The picture takes Clive from his clerkship in the East India Company through his triumphs as a soldier and statesman to his final downfall...
...Paul local newspapers were asked to play down the Chase junket but they insisted on playing up President Campbell, their home-town-boy-who-made-good. One of "Don" Campbell's first jobs had been a clerkship in the State Capitol. Said the president of the Chase National Bank: "And, gentlemen, you should have seen my office, much finer than my office in New York...
...Hirota is still his good friend, but he has grown smoother and wiser. After studying at the Imperial University in Tokyo, Koki Hirota attempted to enter the diplomatic service. He flunked miserably.* As a consolation Enjiro Yamaza of the foreign office Political Affairs bureau got the boy an under-clerkship in the Japanese consulate in Seoul, Korea, coached him for a second try at the examinations. Koki Hirota's chief in Korea was young Katsuji Debuchi, lately Ambassador to Washington. The two have been fast friends ever since. After finally passing his examinations Koki Hirota spent a plodding apprenticeship...
...contestants eight had been chosen for the finals. There were Harold Haugh, earnest, 28-year-old theological student from Cleveland; William Roveen, 25, who for four years has earned his music lessons by waiting on table in a summer camp; Paul Ward, whose last job was a clerkship in a restaurant supply house; Clifford Menz, son of a St. Paul lawyer; William Horne, a smiling, square-shouldered boy who runs errands for a Manhattan laundry; S. Powell Middleton who supervises the public school music in Mount Lebanon, Pa.; Jesse Wolk who farms in New Jersey; and Frederic Langford...