Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would the draft work without the 2-S? The names of all men of eligible age would be put in a large hat, and that frowsy, grandmotherly creature, the Clerk, would withdraw as many names as General Hersey suggests. A simple lottery -- it is the only equitable method. Ideally, the selection could be made but once a year, thereby guaranteeing the non-selected twelve months of security. But under war conditions, man-power needs fluctuate erratically, and more frequent lotteries would no doubt be needed. Still, it would be possible to continue the 1-S deferment, providing most...
Born in Davies County Mo. during Abraham Lincoln's first term. Cauthorne was a school teacher and cowboy in the West. He served as clerk of the Missouri court that acquitted Frank James, brother of Jesse...
Thus last week in a courtroom in Chester, 16 miles south of Liverpool, ended the 14-day trial of the lean stock clerk and his blonde girl friend. They had been charged with killing 17-year-old Edward Evans and two children whose bodies they buried in shallow graves on the moors near Manchester. For the prosecution, Britain's Attorney General Sir Elwyn Jones called 40 witnesses to the stand. The killings were all marked by what Sir Elwyn called "a perverted sexual element." The defendants, he charged, took special care to preserve mementos of the crimes...
...Diego one night last fall, Stock Clerk Clifford G. Miller Jr. captured a neighborhood prowler, suffered a fractured hand in the scuffle, and lost $612.15 in pay and medical expenses. The cost of Miller's unusual willingness to become actively involved in the process of law enforcement was partly offset by medical and disability insurance, but he was still left $269.60 in the hole...
Died. Walter S. Gifford, 81, president and then chairman of A. T. &T. from 1925 to 1950, who rose from stock clerk (at $10 a week) to chief (at $250,000 a year) by the time he was 40, is credited with expanding assets from $3 billion to $10 billion by pushing phone service into every world city, which he sold to the public through a broad-based stock ownership that now boasts 2,840,500 holders of A.T.&T.'s 529 million shares; of complications following a hip injury; in Manhattan...