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When Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels was hard pressed for clerical workers just before the U.S. entered World War I, he gave his legal advisers a knowing look: forthwith they decided that a yeoman need not be male. This led to 11,275 yeomanettes in the U.S., France...
Officialdom had done its best. On Ickes' plea and advice to learn to spit straight, Federal agencies donated spittoon mats; the Senate threw in 500, the House, 1,200. Others had done yeoman work: national committees tried new ballyhoo; uniformed Boy Scouts stood long hours at service stations begging motorists to give up rubber mats from rear compartments; the American Legion staged drives; women's clubs formed telephone brigades; appeals were made to crowds at ball games. But all this was far from enough. Too many Americans had not bothered to rummage their houses for rubber...
...officer's tall, steel desk, a formidable affair with apparently enough drawers, slats and pigeonholes for a post office. For the streams of red tape on land flow right out to sea. An officer spends many an hour shuffling papers in the pigeonholes, dictating to a yeoman or even hunting and pecking on his portable, creating more red tape for other officers to shuffle...
...next offer a series of "Undergraduate Sketches." The Concert will then be resumed by the Glee Club, which will sing a negro spiritual, "Sit Down Servant," with Drue King '43, vice-president-elect of the club, as leader; Bachchanale from "La Belle Helene," by Offenbach; and Chorus from "The Yeoman of the Guard," by Sullivan...
Boatswain's Mate, Coxswain, Quartermaster, Signalman, Seaman, First & Second Class, Radioman, Carpenter's Mate, Shipfitter, Boilermaker, Electrician's Mate, Fireman, Yeoman, Storekeeper, Ships Cook and Machinist's Mate...