Word: taker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Overland Kid, a stiff who was killed falling off a fast freight, returns to earth as Advance Ticket Taker for the Heavenly Express, a ghost train. Since the Heavenly Express elects to use the tracks of the Santa Fe, it causes quite a commotion in roundhouse circles...
Professor William James has been appointed census taker of hallucinations in America in behalf of the Society for Psychical Research...
...against snooping questions in the 1940 Census. New York's Legislature resolved to urge Congress to eliminate "personal questions," chiefly the two on incomes. Similar action by the U. S. Senate was postponed until Senators could read their mail. Meantime in Kenosha, Wis., Cobbler James Rosselli and Census Taker John W. Girman met headon. As a preview of what may happen in April when the Government begins knocking on 132,000,000 citizens' doors, the U. S. watched the bout with considerable interest...
Claiming to know enough Harvard men "to put the average Yard cop to shame," modest "Pop" Garnet, 225 pound, 6 foot ticket-taker and bouncer at the Raymor Ballroom in Boston, last night celebrated his birthday by stating that his life-long ambition is to be on the University police force...
HARVARD, Ill. -- James Rosselli, the corpulent Kenosha, Wis., cobbler who chased a census taker, was advised tonight that government census authorities at Washington had ordered Wisconsin officials to withdraw charges against him and exclaimed...