Word: clerkship
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...Adkins, the other son, had long been a clerk. The law provides that no relative of a Federal judge shall be employed in that judge's court. Mr. Adkins Sr. asked that his able son should not be made a judge lest the other son lose his clerkship. He said: "Jesse has had his share of life's honors. This added recognition would mean little to him compared to what the loss of position would mean to William. It is a hard thing for a father to do but I am compelled to do it." President Coolidge mused...
...hawker Amschel Moses, one Maier Amschel Rothschild, barely escaped becoming a rabbi, entered instead the Oppenheimer Bank of Hanover, laboriously worked his way from clerkship to partnerhood, won the notice of Prince Wilhelm I of Hesse by his skill at chess, became the Prince's banker, begot ten children, swore his five sons upon his deathbed to carry on his business with absolute loyalty to each other and to the House of Rothschild...
...Carr, now Assistant Secretary of State. He is an earnest man of 56, with a high forehead and hard-worked eyes; he might have been a minister in Hillsboro, Ohio, if his parents had had their way. Instead he studied shorthand and soon found his way into a clerkship in the Department of State. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (then a confidential secretary to Secretary of State Gresham) picked him up as an able stenographer, then lost him when he went into the bureau of indexes and archives. By day, young Clerk Carr rummaged around among the dusty State documents with...
...comedy, in three acts and seven scenes, all of which are devoted to the telling of a not-unusual story. Charley Bemis came to New York from the country and gradually worked his way up to a senior clerkship, a situation whereby he has been enabled to save a little money. Then, with the aid of a clear-sighted young woman, 'his girl', and a tooth-ache-inspired nightmare, he realizes he is not as he thought he was: The city has put its stamp upon him. Roused, he asserts his individuality--to such an extent that he loses...
...because of Government service. Last week Representative E. Hart Fenn of Connecticut introduced a bill to give her a pension of $1,200 a year, saying that she is in destitute circumstances. Mrs. McBlair is the widow of a Washington attorney, who left her no money. She secured a clerkship in the Department of Labor. President Harding made her position permanent. President Coolidge allowed her to serve two years beyond the regular retirement age- 70. The reason for this universal desire to serve Mrs. McBlair is that her grandfather, Francis Scott Key, wrote "The Star Spangled Banner...