Word: blotter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McAvoy, had a tiny camera containing film specially sensitized in an ammonia bath. The President, ignoring the cameramen, continued with his work. He glanced at letters and orders. He squiggled his signature, doing his duty and eager to get it done (above) while Gus Gennerich stood ready with a blotter. Secretary Marvin Mclntyre hovered helpfully in the background. The Presidential package of Camels lay open on the desk. All this time, Thomas McAvoy was snapping...
...shot himself because he was tortured by an "anxiety neurosis." The U. S. reader discovering an "Overseas Edition" for the first time, might well suppose from the succeeding 20 pages of rapine and violence that Britain had been struck by an unprecedented crime wave. A vast police court blotter, the pink pages of News Of The World shrieked...
President Roosevelt sat at his desk facing a dozen White House newshawks. Secretary Morgenthau, Mrs. Morgenthau, Stephen T. Early and Marguerite Le Hand looked over his shoulder. On the blotter before him lay a copy of H.R. 6976. Smiling, he picked up a pen and wrote: "Approved. Franklin D. Roosevelt.'' Thus did the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 become...
...When Cattle-raiser Curtis went again to Boston last week, to sell 43 head of stock to the Brighton abattoir, he was reminded by his 97-year-old parent that "it's a durn good hotel." Accordingly he signed his name once more on the Brunswick's blotter and remarked casually to Desk Clerk Henry Nelson: "I guess you better take care of Bess out there...
Into the East Room of the White House was wheeled a plain oak table. Potted palms were set in place. Lawrence Richey, Hoover secretary, bustled in, put a blotter and inkstand on the table, masked some talkie microphones behind piled volumes of The Historians History of the World. President Hoover, followed by Vice President Curtis. Secretary of State Stimson, Secretary of the Navy Adams, Senators Watson. Reed, Borah, Robinson, Swanson, marched in, sat down, signed the London Naval Treaty...