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When the depression caught Bill with two babies and no job, Mother Boyle hustled to the rescue. She knew just where to turn, and the Pendergast organization did not fail her. She got Bill on as a $100-a-month booking clerk at the old Fourth District police station, in the heart of Kansas City's Irish district. Two years later he was secretary to the director of police, an old Pendergast hack named Otto P. (Onie) Higgins. The ward bosses, the flatfeet and the job hunters who came to deal with Higgins called Bill Boyle "Onie...
Hynes upset Curley in the 1949 elections by a vote of 124,308 to 115,514. A former city clerk under Curley, Hynes cut deeply into Curley's once-powerful wards...
Christina (second name withheld because her parents are still in Poland) was a clerk in a state food monopoly. Her story: "If you are late for work three times in a month, they take away half your pay. A girl's average salary is 350 zloty ($90) a month. But a plain dress costs 600 zloty, so pay cuts are tough . . . If you refuse to work overtime, they call you a saboteur and a political enemy. Sometimes they fire you. If you get fired this way twice, you are sent to a labor camp. This is what Polish girls...
...George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), a poor, ambitious boy who pursues the dream of a Horatio Alger hero to his own undoing. He hitchhikes to the distant city, where his rich uncle manufactures swim suits on the vast scale and cuts a swath in local society. There, from a shipping clerk's job in the factory, George catches tempting glimpses of a life of wealth, glamor and importance...
While the chaplain puzzles out his last words of comfort to Baranowski, he feels prickles of remorse tingling in the moral numbness around him. A cell guard speaks to the condemned man in kindly words, a clerk smothers an obscene joke, finally the lieutenant in charge of the firing squad offers to disobey his orders. The result, the chaplain sadly reminds him, would be the same: a more inhumane officer would take his place. "Do evil in order to avoid greater evil, is that what you're getting at?" asks the lieutenant. "Are we any better than the Kartuschkes...