Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Los Angeles, a furiously embarrassed deputy county clerk delivered to the clerk of California's Supreme Court appeal papers in the case of Rush Griffin, 19-year-old Negro convicted of murdering a medical student. Delivery of an appeal ordinarily brings an automatic stay of execution. Last week's delivery was futile because, while his appeal was lying overlooked in the abashed clerk's files, Rush Griffin had been hanged...
...rules of its medium. In and about the lounge are revealed the interlacing stories of the coatroom boy suspected of stealing a diamond pin; the polite gigolo cheating with the wife of the owner of the department store where the coatroom boy's fiancee is a filing clerk; the detective whose daughter is about to graduate from high school; the murderer's antagonist married to the usher who is trying to blackmail the coatroom boy. The neatness of Author Krasna's construction, the pace of Mitchell Leisen's direction and Richard Barthelmess' understanding...
...story centers around one Vachette, a timid economical library clerk. Having met a bowitching Parisian lady for a few moments, he imagines her his mistress and invents numerous devices to prove it to his library associates...
...reservations desk in a Chicago hotel bustled a woman and two men. From the clerk they reserved three seats on the Transcontinental & Western Air plane for New York, bustled away again. Hour later they were back to ask: "Is that the 'Lindbergh Line'?" Told that it was, they indignantly canceled their reservations. Asked TWA's Chicago manager: "Who were they?" Replied the hotel clerk: "Mrs. Bruno Richard Hauptmann and two lawyers...
...content with that, however, Mr. Andrews proceeded to turn clerks in grocery stores handling Seminole toilet paper into Hupp salesmen. Each clerk was given a book of blank introductions to local Hupp dealers, asked to fill in the name of any grocery customer interested in either the Seminole contest or a new Hupmobile. If the local dealer later sold a Hupmobile to a grocery customer, the store clerk received $5 from Hupp. If twelve of the store clerk's prospects bought Hupmo-biles, he received a Hupmobile free. With Seminole planning bigger & better contests, Super-Salesman Andrews...