Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organization," to reach what some consider the third most important elective office in the United States, following the President and the Mayor of New York. After helping Jake Arvey, boss of Cook Country's Democratic organization, boost Adlai Stevenson for the governorship in 1948, Daley became county clerk which, in effect, put him in control of patronage and voting machinery, From this position, he could and did build a machine. By 1955 he was strong enough to buck Arvey and become chairman of the country organization. He achieved a rare position of strength in city politics by fusing the patronage...
BILLY LIAR. The far-out fantasies of a young clerk (Tom Courtenay) delightfully transform one of those bleak English cities into a non-U Utopia...
...sewed up several choice Government construction contracts in past years,* got the bid. Reynolds received about $10,000 for writing the performance bond on the deal, gave $4,000 to Baker for helping him get the business, and passed along another $1,500 in "legal fees" to a clerk of the House Committee for the District of Columbia, for "helping the stadium bill go through the House...
...heroism. Domenico's passage into adulthood takes place without ceremony or bravado. He passes quietly, but not painlessly, self-consciously, but never cutely, into a world of hopeless vacuity. Throughout the movie Olmi shows him what he may become--a dulled commuter from lower middle-class suburbs, a paunchy clerk gazing through shop windows, an embittered office-worker yearning for a piddling promotion...
...next day, when an old clerk dies, Domenico is promoted and his destiny is sealed. As his father exclaims, too joyfully, "He has a job for the rest of his life." He will grow old with the company...