Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comic-strip antics of Mickey Mouse. Revolver shots expressed murder headlines. Drums drummed the roar of the presses getting out an extra. Grofé was so determined to give an accurate picture of the death house that he visited Sing Sing, pretending to be a lawyer's clerk. But in spite of his pains, in spite of instrumentation gaudy as the newssheet he was depicting, in many a critical opinion Grofé came in second at Paul Whiteman's concert...
...Japanese had to be arrested as "Communist suspects." Things have gone so wrong that the Reds seized were found to include young men & women of high Tokyo society: three daughters of millionaires, the daughters of a peer and a fashionable surgeon, several sons of generals and bankers, a socialite clerk of the Foreign Office, six junior naval officers (promptly court martialed), two professors-one from the Imperial University of Tokyo, the other from the Imperial University of Kyoto-and Toshio Shibata whose father is Chief Secretary of the Japanese Cabinet...
Meanwhile in San Francisco last week life was made miserable for Gracie Allen's real brother George who was neither missing, daft nor disreputable but simply a sober, honest clerk for Standard...
...company's accounting system, a man who has worked hard and has been devoted to his employer's interest. After being graduated from a public school in Jersey City, N. J., James Franklin Behan went to work .for New York Telephone Co. as a ledger clerk. Nine years later he was shifted to A. T. & T. and made an accountant. Then, after eight more years, he was made assistant comptroller. Last week he came to work in a brown suit to match the upholstery in his new office and smoked a very big cigar. He is proud...
...People (by Elmer Rice, producer) is a potent squawk in 20 scenes with 44 characters against U. S. capitalism. In a welter of interrelated stories and typical industrial abuses, William Davis is a contented iron works foreman with a refined school teacher daughter about to marry a genteel bank clerk, and a bright son entering the State University. Comes Depression, Davis loses his job, his savings in a bank crash, his home and is finally shot down in an unemployed demonstration. The daughter lives in sin with her bank clerk. The son, jailed for stealing a little coal, joins...