Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today, Cook spends his days with Imperial, his evenings earning a little extra cash as a clerk in the post office near Grand Central Station. His 19-year-old son, Jean Lawrence, studies medicine at Columbia University, his 17-year-old daughter, Annizella, takes a voice course at the Juilliard School of Music. Cook has found time to complete a course in short-story writing, also contributes a monthly column to the International Musician (official organ of the American Federation of Musicians) on jazz piano technique...
...House of Husher. In Manhattan, Burglar Pat Moriarty, in court charged with carrying burglars' tools, refused to plead guilty as a fourth offender unless the court clerk whispered when he recited Moriarty's criminal record. The judge agreed to the arrangement, in a whisper. The clerk questioned Moriarty, in whispers, conveyed each answer to the judge, in a whisper, and finally the judge leaned across the bench and whispered, "I sentence you to 15 years to life imprisonment." Whispered Moriarty, "Thanks...
Milling Congressional veterans shouted greetings to re-elected cronies, slapped backs, shook hands. Pages guided determined-looking first-termers through the teeming lobbies. Cameras whirred beneath incandescent lights. Vice President Henry Wallace snapped a gavel in the Senate. Bald Clerk South Trimble cracked another in the House. The 78th Congress was ready for business...
...Clerk, U.S.N. Rochester...
...jobs: lawyer-trained Carl Elbridge Newton, 44, as president of powerful and profitable C. & 0.; up-from-the-yards John W. Davin, 50, as president of C. & 0. subsidiary New York, Chicago & St. Louis (the "Nickel Plate"), which owns a whopping interest in Wheeling & Lake Erie; and ex-Freight Clerk Robert Jay Bowman, 51, as president of C. & O. subsidiary Pere Marquette...