Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present metropolis. In it is the Empire's financial center. There bank messengers run their errands in tall top hats, even to this rationed day, even through the ruins of the blitz. Last week two Members of the House from the City of London sat on the Treasury bench, wearing tall top hats...
...trees were brown and bare in Washington's Lafayette Square. The sun no longer took the chill off the park bench which is the office of Elder Statesman Bernie Baruch, Presidential adviser...
...postwar plans. This was a task of dazing magnitude, because probably all Government postwar domestic policy will be based on the Old Man's findings. His staff: mostly his present right-hand man, Banker John Hancock. The office: "I don't know where definitely. But a park bench is too flippant for this...
...hereby nominate B. M. Baruch. . . . Mr. Baruch is not only giving his time to help our country while using the bench in the park for his office, but I know for a fact many hundreds of men he has helped with college education without being reimbursed. He sent me to Europe for study-yet will not let me repay...
...brown dog wandered into court, sniffed Sir Oscar's feet and went out. A plane roared low overhead and the Court Crier, an elderly Negro, seated on the step below the Bench to keep mosquitoes off His Honor's ankles, woke with a start, began...