Word: clerking
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...thick-skinned, said the mosquitoes weren't bothering him at all. Despite all the excitement, there were some who seemed slow to realize that Harry Truman was in town. A letter addressed to him was delivered late, after it was rescued from a doubtful post-office clerk who had stamped the envelope: "Not in directory...
Like Mercier, who began as a transit-man and roadmaster's clerk, Russell trained as an engineer at Stanford, started with Southern Pacific as timekeeper for a road gang, rose to assistant foreman of a section gang. As a civil engineer, Don Russell helped boss the double-tracking of Southern's line across the mile-high Sierra Nevadas, worked up through roadmaster, trainmaster and assistant division superintendent to boss of the Los Angeles division in 1939. There he caught the eye of Mercier, who made him his assistant in 1941, groomed...
...priest, various policemen and a pretty girl from the crowd had taken turns in a desperate attempt to dissuade the would-be suicide from jumping. Last week in Louisville, a duplicate cast arrived, as if by magic, to plead with the ledge-walker on the Kentucky Hotel. A hotel clerk named Melvin Tobias leaned out a 19th-floor window, began trying to talk the youth down. A police lieutenant named R. C. Walling quickly arrived on the scene. The clerk and the cop were soon joined by a priest, Father William H. Zahner of the nearby Cathedral of the Assumption...
...crowded and solemn House of Commons, the black-gowned Clerk of the House rose to his feet and pointed wordlessly at Tory Backbencher Sir Hugh O'Neill, 68, Father of the House. It was the signal to nominate a Speaker for the new House of Commons, and Sir Hugh promptly rose to speak. His nominee: tall, white-thatched Tory William Shepherd Morrison, 58, a lean and likable Scots lawyer, known to M.P.s as "Shakes" because his first two initials are the same as Shakespeare's. Shakes has been M.P. for the constituency of Cirencester and Tewkesbury...
Escalator Clause. In Hartford, Mich., Shirley Putschel, payroll clerk at an automobile parts plant, admitted she had been raising the figures on her husband's paychecks...