Word: clerks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Considine became a newspaperman by accident. He started out as a Government messenger, typist and clerk in Washington. When the old Washington Herald spelled his name wrong, in an amateur tennis tournament, he went to the paper to complain-and got a job as tennis reporter...
Choice of Weapons. In Norfolk, Va., Court Clerk Betty Jean Woolard reported that a woman, told to wait an hour for a pistol permit, had flounced out saying: "No, that would be too late. I guess I'll have to use a knife after...
...repatriate the 10,000 Japanese technicians who had run Korea for the 43 years of their occupation. A scant 3,000 Americans had to take over their positions and begin training 7,000 Koreans for administration, for the Japanese had never permitted natives to rise above the rank of clerk or shopkeeper...
...Bargain Basement. It was not an altogether deserved fate for Wolchok. A onetime grocery clerk, an earnest and unpolished man, he had been president of the department store union since its founding in New York in 1937. From the very beginning the union was ridden by Communists. Department store clerks -sometimes college-educated, generally low-paid, and frequently resentful-were susceptible to Communist colonizing. It was once said: "When the revolution comes it will start in a bargain basement...
Namesake. In El Dorado, Kans., August Herman Draft Jr. got notice of his induction from Draft Board Clerk Barbara Jane Board...