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...another jury brought in its verdict last week, Mr. Fish discovered that he had urgent business in New York. He dictated a hasty statement for the press. Said Mr. Fish: "I am very sorry to learn that George Hill, a disabled, decorated veteran of the World War and a clerk in my office, has been convicted of perjury. . . . Mr. Hill is of English ancestry. . . . He had an obsession against our involvement...
...looking sailor-small (about 5 ft. 4 in.) with a high forehead and already grey hair. He was also "invincibly cheerful." His knowledge of mathematics got him on shipboard "through the cabin window" instead of the usual way, "through the hawsehole"-i.e., he began as a ship's clerk instead of a common sailor...
...would have seemed even more surprising to men of earlier generations-for exactly opposite reasons. For centuries Christianity and education went hand in hand. Throughout the Middle Ages education was so exclusively the domain of the church that any prisoner who could read was recognized as a cleric (clerk) and could get his case transferred to the more lenient ecclesiastical courts. Every great university in Britain and the U.S. was founded with strong religious motives, largely to educate ministers. And until the last century the idea of education without religious instruction was as novel as the idea of travel without...
...skilled in precision-grinding, lathe-operating, pipefitting and sheet-metal work was a shipping clerk...
Writer. In Columbus, Ohio, a visitor to a telegraph office wrote a message, threw it away, wrote another, threw it away, wrote a third, handed it to a clerk. The third: "All your cash and be quiet." The first and second, found after the stickup: "Be calm. This is a stickup"; "Holdup, All your cash...