Word: clerk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example Paris respects. Amazingly few years ago he was living with his wife and children in a flat so modest that the rent was but 1,500 francs a year. Soon afterward great Raymond Poincaré (considered by his worst parliamentary enemies "abnormally incorruptible") declared that Finance Ministry Clerk Clément Moret was "abnormally honest," had him sent to reorganize the impoverished exchequer of reconquered Alsace-Lorraine...
Though the clerk made good and became perhaps the greatest self-made Governor of the Bank of France in its long history, Mama Moret could never see why she or the children should cut a dash. With papa's salary raised to 500,000 francs a year the Moret moppets continued to go to ordinary Paris public schools. Mama Moret and Paris socialites are unaware of each other's existence. Today the National Tightwad is venerated for having saved a reputed 85%, of his salary while Governor of the Bank of France, salted it away in gold franc...
...onetime shoe-clerk, dancing master and salad oil salesman, Al Munro Elias became a baseball statistician in 1914. Sick with indigestion, he took time off from work to watch ball games, amused himself by reducing them to figures. His first successful venture as a professional was a series of pamphlets sold in saloons, men's stores and hotels. The New York Evening Telegram soon began to buy his figures. In 1917, the National League made Al Munro Elias its statistician. Fourteen years ago he began to supply papers with his most famed daily feature : the leading batters...
...Columbus, Ohio, 40 years ago. At Ohio State University he was a brilliant bedraggled student. Few of his friends knew that at the age of eight his left eye had been shot out by a playful playmate with an arrow. Through the Peace Conference, Thurber served as a code clerk in the U. S. Embassy in Paris. In 1925 he was Nice editor of the Paris edition of the Chicago...
...year. Yet, sometimes Editor Blossom wondered if perhaps he and his staff were not unconsciously swayed in favor of authors with money-making names. Three months ago he started an experiment. In the magazine's mail room, as each unsolicited story was received, a clerk pasted a black strip over the author's name, started it on its route through the editors...