Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Francisco's Mayor Joseph Alioto is suing Look magazine for $12.5 million because of its article linking him with the Mafia. That's no joke, but the federal courtroom dissolved in guffaws when the clerk read a deposition from Witness Barry Goldwater, who figured in the case because a key underworld figure claimed acquaintance with him. He had never heard of alleged Mafioso James Fratianno, said the Senator, but the man's photo looked familiar. "In fact, he looks a little like Agnew...
...selling transcripts to the press. Lipman assembled a six-man team including two reporters, two secretaries, a duplicator operator and a messenger boy. He contracted with news organizations to sell 79 transcripts at $1.05 per page or $802.20 per set. Then Lipman discovered that a Suffolk Superior Court clerk, Edward V. Keating, planned to release the transcript at the bargain price of $75 per copy...
Seven votes may be required however, Yesterday, the Norton Woods Neighborhood Association-a group of around 70 neighborhood residents who support building no more than 160 units on thesite-filed with the City Clerk a petition opposing the zoning change...
Five years ago, the FBI fired a bachelor clerk named Thomas Carter for admittedly sharing his bed with a girl he had known and dated for years. (He denied having had intercourse with her) The bureau's interest was triggered by an anonymous letter reporting that the 25-year-old Carter was "sleeping with young girls and carrying on." The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia later ruled that Carter was entitled to a trial to determine whether his conduct was cause for discharge Chiding the Government for invoking the standard of the lady from Dubuque...
Instead, the FBI recently settled out of court. It rescinded Carter's firing, paid him $3,000 for the time he was unemployed and allowed the disgusted clerk to resign in good standing. Almost simultaneously, a U.S. district court in San Francisco ruled that the post office was arbitrary and capricious when it fired 23-year-old Clerk Neil Mindel for living with a girl who was not his wife. By failing to prove any connection between his sexual behavior and his postal duties, the court said, his superiors had deprived him of due process of law. The court...