Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frenchmen grieved and worried. A Parisian flower-vendor propped a black headline, Roosevelt est mort, against his cart of bouquets - "for the death of a savior," he said. A bank clerk cried: "La voix de l'Amérique est diminuée de moitié - America's voice is reduced by half!" Hundreds signed the Embassy register. Hundreds sent cards of regret to Americans whom they had never known. Frenchmen came up to Americans in the streets, shook hands, and said: "We have lost our best friend. . . . What will happen...
Tokens of Affection. In Milwaukee, a woman clerk at a local ration board was found to have handed out to her friends, since Christmas, 50,000 blue points, 50,000 red points, coupons for 3,500 lbs. of sugar and an undetermined number of shoe coupons...
Unwedding Announcement. In Bloomington, Ind., County Clerk Earl Baxter grew tired of $300 alimony gathering dust in his safe, advertised for the divorcee to come and pick it up. She came promptly, explained, "I didn't know I'd been divorced...
...Francisco he and his secretariat of 300 (mostly Americans) will have the drudging, thankless clerk's job of copying, translating and publishing, running the thousands of paper-clip and pencil chores of an international meeting.* But Alger Hiss will be an important figure there. As Secretary-General, managing the agenda, he will have a lot to say behind the scenes about who gets the breaks...
Rite of Spring. In Hillsdale, Mich., a citizen was refused his eighth marriage license in eight years, even after he confided to the county clerk that he had never been divorced, celebrated a private anniversary by getting remarried to his wife every spring...