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...President's No. 1 trouble shooter-gave up a suite of offices in the State Department Building so that Wild Bill Donovan could move in. Then a mail carrier turned up at the entrance desk with a registered letter for Colonel Donovan. "Donovan?" said the watchman. "I don't know of any Donovan." The letter went back to the post office...
Watchful Waiting. In Mechanic Falls, Me. (pop. 1,999), citizens, mindful of "impending war clouds," called a town meeting, hired a night watchman...
...There are still altogether too many employes, technical and otherwise, who have outlived their usefulness and who should retire. An attendant need not be an eager salesman, but he certainly shouldn't act like a grumpy night watchman disturbed in his slumbers...
Donovan explained that the purpose of the whole Youth Administration program is to give jobs which will make it possible to train young people for their vocations. For that reason the Administration suggests to the colleges that they refrain from giving jobs of the watchman or janitorial type and favors office or clerical work and laboratory work as much as possible...
...other death was added to the toll of 19 when it was learned later that the watchman on the barge had been knocked into the sea by the collision. For Boston's fishing fleet it was the worst disaster since the foundering of the schooner Eleanor Nicker son, in 1932, when 22 men drowned in the stormy north Atlantic...