Word: clerkes
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Until this year, every Justice and his clerks reviewed each petition as it arrived. At the suggestion of Freshman Justice Lewis Powell, the petitions are now assigned to one of the law clerks, who prepares a single pool memo of one to 15 pages for separate consideration by Justices Burger, Powell, White, Blackmun and Rehnquist. Douglas, Stewart, Brennan and Marshall have refused to go along with the innovation and each reads every petition or a memo on it prepared for him by his own clerk...
Wetmore will file the bill with the Clerk of the State House of Representatives for consideration in next year's legislative session, he said...
Hobson, though, takes greater pride in his successful campaign to change downtown racial practices. "When I started out with picket lines in 1960," he told TIME Correspondent Paul Hathaway, "a black clerk was as rare as a white crow. Now they are all over the place." He pressured such giants as Safeway Stores and A&P into hiring blacks for the first time. When one leading auto dealer hired a black salesman, Hobson thanked the company by buying his first Ford there...
Some of the girls were worried about receiving their absentee ballots in time to vote, and Jane went so far as to send a telegram to her town's county clerk's office to make sure they hadn't forgotten her as a new voter. One evening we were going to visit one of France's landmarks, but Karen did not accompany us because she was busy reading so she could be an "informed" voter. If anyone purchased magazines, there was a standing rule that voters had first priority in reading them in the hope that...
...That poor Houston ticket clerk never had a chance," Dallas Psychiatrist David Hubbard said last week. "He defied the first rule in dealing with a paranoiac-never crowd him or move at him suddenly-and got an instant, deadly education...