Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: In reference to the article in your Feb. 10 issue under Prohibition "In God We Trust." At 6:30 last night I went to the "Cordials" and 'Beverages" shop at 201 East 44th Street and asked the clerk if he had anything alcoholic. He said he had and suggested brandy or rye. I explained that I had seen his "advertisement" in TIME, which had prompted me to drop in. He read your account with much interest and expressed the opinion that it might cause them some trouble. A man who had been sitting nearby suddenly took an interest...
...million handkerchiefs. Miss Pidgeon showed that, though their sales had doubled in a decade, this enormous turnover brought no enormous wages to salesgirls. Labor is a prime item in chain-store operation. Where customers can readily see the entire stock, make their selections unaided, the cheapest, most inexperienced young clerk can perform the simple task of wrapping bundles, ringing up receipts...
Opened soon, just around the corner on Third Avenue from the first green-fronted store, a second: The Wholesome Products Co., malt & hops, imported cordials and glassware. This too was guarded by the Supreme Protective System, but the clerk, a mere youth, appeared to be in a state of chronic fright...
Married. Margaret, 21, daughter of Senator & Mrs. James Couzens of Michigan; and William Jeffries Chewning, 25, Washington socialite bank clerk. Because she is a Catholic, he a Protestant, they had to get special dispensation from Archbishop Curley at Baltimore, whither they eloped...
...lola, Kan., Ira Sutton, hotel clerk, wrote in succession on his register the names of three salesmen for a refrigerator company, a Mr. Coldsnow, a Mr. Winter, a Mr. Coldiron...