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  • Now, you owe a public apology to all the men past and present of the US Army Special Forces for making money for years falsely posing as one of us, let alone posing as Vietnam veteran, when you were, in-fact, a clerk-typist in Europe, period.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • Starting in the mid-1950s, Mrs. Barget spent her entire federal career with the Army Department, initially as a clerk-typist.

    Cleo D. 'Sue' Barget; analyst Post 2010

  • She did clerical work at the Navy Department during World War II and, many years later, worked briefly as a clerk-typist at what is now the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

    Geraldine 'Gerry' Love; Thomas Marfing; Wilma Wood Pechacek; B.M. Shaver 2010

  • My title was clerk-typist, but I'd done practically zero typing.

    Office Politics Katie Norton 2010

  • I wished I were a receptionist instead of a clerk-typist.

    Office Politics Katie Norton 2010

  • CONRAD, Mary Evelyn, 95, of Hollywood, a clerk-typist, died June 22 at St. Mary's Hospital.

    Southern Maryland Deaths 2010

  • Born in Baltimore in 1911, she has lived there her entire life, except for a brief period during the 1930s when she lived in Washington, D.C. She graduated from high school in 1930 and worked at temporary jobs until 1935, when she began work as a clerk-typist for the federal government.

    Narrator from Weaving Women's Words: Baltimore Stories 2010

  • Back in the day, women were pretty much relegated to four occupations: wife and homemaker and mother; school teacher; nurse; and clerk-typist in an office.

    A Most Important Social Critique 2009

  • Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 In the fall of 1972, I got a job as a clerk-typist in the Financial Aid Office of UC-Berkeley, in Sproul Plaza, and I worked there all during the “Watergate Months” of 1973, and …

    Me and the Great Zucchini at UC-Berkeley, in 1973. 2009

  • Both worked -- Mr. Yagerman at the Navy Yard as a clerk-typist, Ms. Brodsky as a court stenographer -- and they had no way to get in touch during the day.

    Love Is in the Air(waves) 2009

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