Word: clerk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas Bayne Wilson, former clerk and traveling auditor for the Southern Pacific Co., branched out nine years ago, became president of Pacific Greyhound Lines Inc. which he had merged from half-a-dozen motor transport companies. After nursing Pacific Greyhound through 1932 with a $412,960 profit, he was appointed Vice President and General Manager of the Alaska Steamship Co., boosted its business 50% between 1933 and 1937. Last week, to fill an old vacancy, he was elected board chairman of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., which has long wanted directors with broad transport experience. Quiet, energetic Thomas Wilson...
...crowd was then put in line, handled like any cinema overflow. The 220 Charles employes were loyal to the store, resentful of the newfangled ways that had helped to kill it. One customer asked a busy saleswoman on the second floor: "Is this the Hostess Shop?" Said the clerk: "Ha, it was, madam, or so they say it was. I never thought...
...left her enough money to amass a valuable collection of antiques and a reputed fortune in unmounted gems. She queened it over a household composed of her aged mother, Mrs. Lucinda Trow, and her half-cousin and husband, Sumner Knox, a mild little man who had been a mail clerk, later worked in the county relief office...
churchmen, merchants, welfare societies and reform groups, have not done much to batter down this figure. On the contrary, the forces of reform received a stiff jolt last week-at the hands of Mrs. Robert Dwyer, wife of a Washington police-court clerk, and her friend Helen O'Brien, a bookkeeper...
While quick-thinking Police Clerk Dwyer announced to Washington newshawks that his newly famed wife had placed the bet for an undisclosed friend to whom she had to turn over her winnings, the two women went into hiding to avoid salesmen and reporters...