Word: clerks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long list of town officers has been reduced considerably since the days when the people elected a tithingham, herdsman, drummer, and horgreeve. Yet, the voter is still faced with far from a short ballot, for he must choose 16 men to guide the destiny of Calais during 1948--moderator, clerk, selectmen, school directors, auditors, listers, trustees of public funds, cemetery commissioners, overseers of the poor, road commissioner, constable, law agent, grand, juror, health officer, truant officer, and the local old age officer...
Professional Engineer. Wilson took a job as a $110 a month clerk with Indiana Bell Telephone Co. the Monday after graduation. Hard work ("The night force knows me pretty well"), moderate ambition ("My only interest is in the challenge of a job, not its level") and a friendly manner ("I know them all by their first names") helped him move up fast. In 1929 he was transferred to the parent company, American Telephone & Telegraph, where he became general commercial engineer in 1942, vice president two years later...
Fool's Silver. Albina Rodriguez had shocked her family and friends by marrying Simon Patino, son of a Spanish-Indian cobbler. Simon, the underpaid clerk of a German merchant, promptly got fired and had to make good on a $250 credit he had advanced to a prospector who had found, not silver, but "worthless" tin in the Andes...
...life was veined by the ordeal of his own poverty. With the egotism of genius, he refused to be turned "into a [bourgeois] money-making machine." He never had a regular job, and only once tried to get one; a railroad company turned him down as a clerk because of his bad handwriting. Once he reported to Engels: "I can no longer leave the house, because my clothes are in pawn." Another time he was arrested on suspicion of theft when he tried to pawn his wife's family silver (it bore the crest of the Dukes of Argyll...
...years, Principal Walton has kept his school rigorously faithful to Quakerism. He himself lives so strictly and simply that even greying alumni are embarrassed to smoke in front of him. His 421 students-about half boys and half girls-do their own chores, wait on table, mow lawns, and clerk in the school store. For eight weeks each year, in place of English classes, they get special religious instruction: a study of ancient religions, selections from the Old Testament, the life and teaching of Jesus, the history and teachings of Quakerism...