Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...runoff did not affect Negro gains in last month's primary, when 15 Negroes were chosen for county posts such as justice of the peace and chancery clerk...
...stamped for export almost from her birth on April 27, 1937, in Hastings, Neb. (pop. 15,412), where her father, Jack Dennis, was a bakery driver-salesman who also happened to have a tested IQ of 160. After the war, Jack joined the post office as a railway mail clerk based in Lincoln (pop. 98,884), where Sandy was mainly raised. Her mother toiled as a secretary, lest their daughter ever be unindulged. Sandy, after all, was a quick, creative child who read ferociously long before she got to school. Later on, she regularly gobbled six or seven books...
SKOWHEGAN, ME., Lakewood Theater. The Owl and the Pussycat. A feline prostitute claws and purrs her way into the life of a stuffy book clerk with surprising results. Aug. 28-Sept...
Into a squalid Calcutta tenement apartment six lives are crowded: a gentle, ineffectual bank clerk, his wife and their small son, his parents and his sister. Money is scarce, and the wife takes a job selling home appliances from door to door. The old couple are shocked by the idea of a woman working. The husband's pride, too, is wounded, but the bank fails and he must accept the fact that the wife is now the family's sole breadwinner. In the end, she quarrels with her employer and quits. Husband and wife join hands to find...
...Negro won a statewide post, 15 were nominated as candidates for county posts, and twelve of them will face no opposition in November's election. Six won the nomination for justice of the peace, four for constable, three for supervisor, one for coroner and another for chancery clerk. Twenty-two others, including four campaigning for sheriff, got enough votes to enter the August 29 primary...