Word: filed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...August 1942, while I was file clerk of the 726th M.P. Battalion, Camp Beauregard, La., I handled the papers of a recruit who was grey-haired and well over 60 years of age. He had 15,988 days "bad time" (AWOL) and a year and a half unexpired term of a three-year enlistment remaining to be served...
...Labor Giant Lewis held hard to his demand that coal operators discuss his claims for jurisdiction over a handful of supervisory employes. The operators refused, holding that they were management folk and not rank-&-file workers...
...reason: the Academy's lock-step method of teaching. Daily, across the Yard, in & out of Luce, Dahlgren, Isherwood, Maury Halls, squads of midshipmen march to get their marks, file into class, sit down, open books, stand up, recite, sit down, stand up, march to the next class. The question (said Annapolis' critics on the inside) is not what they know but what they momentarily remember...
Spare, ascetic T.U.C. General Secretary Sir Walter Citrine did his tactful best to smooth the waters. But the Congress bore Meany no hard feelings. From the rank&-file members of the T.U.C. he received a handsome gold watch. The presentation was made by President Edwards. Said he, twinkling: "This is not Lend-Lease...
...invasion proceeded with machine-like precision. Transport planes floated down on the airstrips at four-minute intervals. U.S. and British battleships, cruisers and destroyers marched in stately file through the treacherous Uraga Channel into Tokyo Bay. It was almost too smooth. Said a dry Britisher, watching Brigadier General William T. Clement and a few marines raise the U.S. flag over Yokosuka's terraced naval base: "Now he'll declare the bazaar open...