Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee on bills and overtures ruled that the phrase was directed not at individuals but at nations, and to clinch the argument, the church's chief administrative officer, Stated Clerk William P. Thompson, read to the assembly a Defense Department memorandum declaring that "commitment to the Confession would not disqualify an individual for a position requiring access to classified information." The statement was issued with the approval of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, a Presbyterian...
...elected its officers for 1967-68: Andrew P. Tobias '68, president Richard T. Howe '69, Jeremy J. Kinross-Wright '68, Stephrn B. Roy '68, Robert R. Weller '68, Jeffrey G. Wright '68, student directors; John F. Bevilaqua '69, treasurer; Max Lee Kiehne '68, clerk...
George courted Lurleen at a local dime store, where she was a 16-year-old clerk, then went off to World War II service as a B-29 crewman (nine combat missions in the Pacific). The war also separated the Johnsons. Ruth served as a WAVE lieutenant in Washington, editing secret papers for an admiral on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. An infantry lieutenant in Patton's army, Frank won a Bronze Star in the Normandy invasion, was wounded twice and sent back to England as a legal officer...
...aboard a steamship plying trade with the Orient, eventually earning a master mariner's rating. After working on a pineapple plantation in Hawaii, Hunt returned home at 20 and set up a brief partnership in a Puget Sound ferry service. In 1927, he bluffed his way into a clerk's job at the Zellerbach Paper Co., by pretending to know how to operate an adding machine...
...selects white cards for spices, blue for canned goods, red for dairy products, and so on. Finally he gives the cards to an operator who feeds them to a computer; in seconds the machine spews out a list of the items, prices and a total. Minutes later, a clerk appears from the stock room with the order. So rationally arranged is the selection that a list of 50 or more goods takes only a few minutes. And with only three assistants, Turquet can handle 30 people at a time during rush hours without creating bottlenecks...