Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...customer who ordered a tailor-made suit from Manhattan's Richard Bennett Associates, Inc. this week got a surprise. He picked out his material and style in the usual way, but the clerk took no measurements. Instead, he led the customer into a room full of mirrors, had him stand near the center. There was a bright flash and his picture was taken. Then a harness of tape measures was draped about his chest and another picture taken. Said the clerk: "That's all. We'll mail you your suit in about a month." There...
Before he was old enough to vote, William Larimer Mellon decided that he had not been born to sit at a desk. He refused to finish school, was miserable as a shipping clerk. To curb his restlessness, staid Uncle Andrew Mellon assigned him some oil leases that had turned up in the course of some family deals. To them, William added scores of others. He built a refinery and pipeline, surprised his money-wise family by organizing an integrated oil business which he sold to the Rockefellers in 1895 for about twice what it cost...
Crawford got off a letter to Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer demanding Virden's resignation. Three days later, Virden, a quiet, capable Cleveland manufacturer who called himself "almost violently anti-atheist-Marxist," resigned. His dark-eyed daughter Euphemia was indeed employed by Tass, as a clerk and teletypist. An earnest, idealistic girl, she had gone to Sarah Lawrence College, became interested in Marxism. No amount of argument or entreaty from her father had done any good. So far as he (and the FBI) knew, she was not a card-holding Communist. But when she took the Tass job, Virden...
Foot & Mouth. In Ottawa, Parliamentary Law Clerk Paul M. Ollivier proposed that M.P.s be required to stand on one foot while speaking...
...September night in 1945, Cipher Clerk Igor Gouzenko stuffed some damning papers inside his shirt, and walked out of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa to crack open Canada's spy case. Last week, with the movie The Iron Curtain (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) opening in a dozen Canadian cities and Gouzenko's new book This Was My Choice (Dent Ltd.; $3) going on sale, Canadians checked on the cast of characters in their spy drama...