Word: clerks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...private practice in Oakland, he jumped into World War I as an infantry private at Camp Lewis, Wash. He was sent to the Central Infantry Officers' Training Camp at Waco, Tex., was a first lieutenant when the armistice was signed. After the war he got a job as clerk on the state legislature's judiciary committee. In 1938 he paid a tragic return visit to his home town. His father, who had turned into a miserly hermit with a reputation for ruthless mortgage foreclosures, had been bludgeoned to death with a length of gaspipe. The murder is still...
Died. Maurice C. Latta, 78, White House Executive Clerk and its oldest employee (for every Administration since McKinley's); of a heart ailment; in Bethesda, Md. A dour, studiously anonymous "indispensable," "Judge" Latta bossed the more than 200 White House Administration employees. As official messenger, he was privileged to interrupt the U.S. legislature-with the words "I am directed by the President of the United States to deliver a message in writing...
Picked up at the County Clerk's office, by lackadaisical Cinemactress Lauren Bacall, who had taken 2½ years getting around to the errand: $2,300 in U.S. bonds being held for her there. "It's an exhausting trip into downtown Los Angeles," she explained, "and I was so tired...
...week's end the authorities began cracking down. In Manhattan, customs agents arrested four men, among them a Custom House clerk and an employee of American Relief for Italy, Inc., charged them with fraudulent use of Government documents and disguising illegal exports as relief shipments. Licenses, said the Department of Commerce, were made out to specific exporters for specific shipments; any exporter caught buying or selling them could be barred from his trade...
...aided by a staff of nine which includes three doctors, two nurses, two secretaries, a statistician, and a clerk. When a veteran registers, he is sent an appointment for a routine checkup, although sick care is administered at any time...