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...makes no provision for the fact that guaranteed government checks are the means for repayment and consequently rakes in four and one-half percent interest on advances that are admittedly riskproof. Any interest charge on such loans amounts to penalizing veterans for a mistake made by some anonymous clerk in the V.A.'s Boston office...
...debt incurred in passing bad checks. Another woman used her room to entertain "boy friends" (one of whom threatened to knock the hotel detective's block off) and kept her five children playing in the lobby until midnight, to the distraction of the desk clerk...
Lazarus has long held that the only way department stores can maintain their profits when the current boom slacks off is to make it possible for every clerk to serve more customers. To make this come true in Houston, he hired Manhattan Designer Raymond Loewy and associates to lay out a $12,000,000 store that would make selling more efficient...
Randall was dispatched to his post, the Hotel staff said, after Aldrich Durant '04, business manger of the University, had telephoned the day clerk that he feared students might clash with a scheduled AmVets picket...
...Endless readiness to serve his Wall Street master-this is what finally took the small Missourian to the White House. . . . Let Vandenberg, Byrnes, Dulles, Hoover manager him, and let Clark Clifford . . . write his speeches for him. Let Truman only read them tolerably well. Thus Harry Truman has become the clerk of American imperialism. . . . He no longer says, as formerly, that he never takes political decisions without consulting his wife. He knows now with whom to consult! . . . In his squeaky voice already is heard the sound of military wheels...