Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate Appropriations Committee got down to really important business. Committeemen tacked $196,800 to the $27,463,866 1943 legislative appropriation bill. The purpose: to provide each Senator with an additional clerk. Senators, burdened with responsibilities, complained that their present clerical staffs were not adequate to handle all the mail pouring in on them. Most of the letters: red-hot criticisms of Congress...
...When WPB ordered toothpaste and shaving-cream buyers to turn in an old tube when they bought a new one, a Manhattan bride was horrified. She and her husband had used their parents' tooth paste; they had no tube to turn in. A drug clerk saved her honeymoon, sold her tooth powder...
...lobby of Park Avenue's Drake Hotel, Pat di Cicco, husband of Gloria Vanderbilt, got to fighting with an Irish room clerk because the hotel would not lend him a pot to cook a chicken...
Correction. In Pueblo, Colo., the county clerk got a note from a woman in Oklahoma instructing: "Just erase my marriage off your records; I understand it was illegal...
...over his bald head three times. Minister Daladier blew his nose furiously five or six times. Deputy Ybarnégaray, later Minister for Youth & Family in the Vichy Government, boldly waved a sheet of paper. "Oh, those gentlemen," said Head Usher Bouchonnet. who had the worldliness of a hotel clerk. "Madame Tabouis. if you only knew...