Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letters was this big, bulky, official-looking thing, with a big seal on it, and 'Return within five days to PHYLLIS J. RUTLEDGE, CIRCUIT CLERK, Kanawha County Courthouse, Charleston, West Virginia.' It was my absentee ballot, and, like any other first-time voter, I tore it open eagerly...
...that her troubles were over. Screenwriting jobs dried up overnight. She was forced to sell her beloved farm in Pleasantville, N.Y., and, at a particularly low ebb, clerk in a Manhattan department store. Scoundrel Time does not dwell on these privations or, for that matter, anything else. It can be read in roughly the same amount of time Hell man spent with HUAC. Yet its understated fury is unforgettable...
Threatening Calls. Usually complacent Rhodesian whites were shaken by the incident. Declared a bank clerk in Salisbury who had just returned from military-reserve duty on the border where Rhodesian troops are deployed in force: "This is just not possible. We're supposed to have everything buttoned up." Others vented their anger on black militants. Elliott Gabellah, who heads the external wing of the African National Council inside Rhodesia, appealed for police protection after he received several threatening phone calls...
Couples fill in a confidential marriage form, which is filed with the county clerk and is then unavailable for inspection by anyone. That makes it easy for applicants intent on bigamy. Says William St. John, Orange County clerk: "There is nothing on the form that requires a couple to say how long they have been living together, if they had a previous marriage or divorce, and if the divorce is finalized...
...Mullens. He conducted his own investigation to corroborate the official version of how Michael was killed. Muffling his own indignation, he tells how the bureaucracy added insult to loss. An anguished war-protest letter from Peg Mullen to Richard Nixon brought back a note from a White House clerk assuring her the President was "truly sorry" that her son had died. Attached to the note were copies of Nixon's "Vietnamization" speeches. Another letter from the Adjutant General's office informed the Mullens that the "nonbattle" casualty had been posthumously awarded the Bronze Star and the Good Conduct...