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His secretaryship is remembered by most in and outside the club simply as “a nasty piece of business.”

From Golf Digest • May 5, 2020

“When there’s an assistant secretaryship at stake, a lot of principles get thrown out,” conceded the official, who asked for anonymity.

From The Guardian • Dec. 4, 2016

To that secretaryship the Institution elected Dr. Osborn in 1906, upon the death of Samuel Pierpont Langley.

From Time Magazine Archive

To shine up Roosevelt, Kennedy has discussed naming him to an eye-catching assistant secretaryship or a place on the Civil Rights Commission.

From Time Magazine Archive

After several unpaid offices in that organization, he took a paid secretaryship which he kept for the rest of his life.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck