Word: typists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least five women, including Helen Campbell's niece and the niece's maid, Parnell Thomas' aunt and daughters-in-law, were on the Congressman's payroll, drew about $20,000 in salaries and never did any work. One, a clerk-typist on the payroll of the House Un-American Activities Committee, did put in a short stint-addressing Thomas' Christmas cards...
Sharman Douglas, 21-year-old daughter of the U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James's, and close friend of Princess Margaret, has just finished a secretarial course at a Kensington business college, is a speedy, accurate typist, and can take dictation at 120 words a minute, an official press release from the U.S. embassy in London announced...
...typist was talking about Yugoslavia's candidacy for a seat on the Security Council, which came up for a vote before U.N.'s General Assembly last week. The U.S. backed Yugoslavia. Russia, dead set against the Titoist rebels, backed Czechoslovakia. The issue that bitterly divided the Eastern bloc also split the Western camp: Britain had chosen to back the Russian candidate...
...Kgotla (Parliament) was not in session, but a quorum of tribal representatives was lounging in the sun when the tribe's Chief-designate arrived, arm in arm with his new wife. Up jumped the tribesmen and squarely faced the young bride, the former Ruth Williams, a London typist. "Balulubela!" shouted the tribesmen...
Into a small, smart shop on London's Bond Street strolled two women. One was a $24-a-week typist, the other a peeress. In turn, each one plunked down 49 shillings ($9.80), and walked out smiling with a new pair of Joyce playshoes. In similar shops in Manhattan and Melbourne, Los Angeles and Lima, Sydney and Santiago, other women were doing the same thing last week. In a single day, in eight countries around the world, some 16,000 pairs of Joyce shoes are sold...