Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exactly a year and a day after the gang's escape in Greenfield, James Dalhover, its "trigger man," walked into Dakin's store for the second time, to pick up his merchandise. Said he: "Where's the stuff I ordered?" The clerk who stepped forward was not Hurd but Walter Walsh, a crack G-man and specialist in trick shots. Walsh's job was to signal 13 more G-men, 30 Bangor patrolmen and a squad of Indiana and Maine State troopers posted outside the store as soon as a member of the Brady gang came...
...only vitamins which the clerk in the grocery and the cook in the kitchen know about are A for clear vision, B for sound nerves, C for healthy muscles and D for sturdy bones. Nutritionists, however, know that there are at least six kinds of vitamin B, eight D's, three H's and a K. Each of these should be assigned a separate letter, according to the nomenclature suggested by Casimir Funk, a Polish biochemist who in 1911 invented the word vitamin to describe these food elements essential to good health. But there are not enough letters...
...three-cornered fight among C. I. O., A. F. of L. and Detroit's better businessmen. Sponsored by the city's conservative citizenry who earlier in the year were fearful that a united labor slate would sweep the field, was Richard W. Reading, long-time city clerk. The C. I. O. candidate was an oldtime Democrat named Patrick O'Brien, Michigan's 69-year-old veteran attorney general who made his liberal name as circuit judge during the copper mine strikes in Michigan before the War. A. F. of L. belatedly entered John W. Smith...
...drizzling rain Detroit went to the polls last week to roll up the heaviest primary vote in the city's history. The top two candidates, who will stand for election in November were conservative City Clerk Reading (137,000) and C. I. O.'s O'Brien (99,000). A. F. of L.'s Smith polled only 68,000 but Detroit did not overlook the fact that the two Labor candidates together pulled more votes than City Clerk Reading...
...Supreme Court office staff Associate Justice Black last week got Leon Smallwood, a Negro Catholic, as his messenger, chose Anne Butt, a Catholic, for his secretary. Day the Court convened (see p. 17), Jerome A. Cooper of Birmingham was appointed his law clerk. A statement issued through the Supreme Court mentioned that Lawyer Cooper "is of the Jewish faith...