Word: desk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...senior peers. They shuffled into position, marched up the aisle towards the woolsack whereon sat Viscount Hailsham, Lord Chancellor, speaker of the House of Lords. At each three steps they paused to bow. When at last they reached the woolsack, Earl Baldwin knelt, got up, moved to a reading desk where a clerk sonorously summoned him "to sit among the Lords of the realm." Earl Baldwin was clearly uncomfortable. He searched for non-existing pockets, scratched his brow, had to be reminded to sign the Lords' register, take the oath, kiss the Bible. In five minutes it was over...
...last Friday the 48 office workers of L. L. Coryell & Son in Lincoln, Neb. pulled out their desk drawers, emptied them, packed typewriters, files and work-in-progress into large cardboard boxes on which their names were neatly stamped. The boxes were boosted into a moving van which rumbled out of town that evening. In the 6 a. m. quiet of Saturday morning the Coryell staff reassembled with their families, piled into 13 automobiles festooned with banners and wound off in a honking caravan toward Colorado Springs, 600 mi. away. A cameraman hired by L. L. Coryell & Son stood beside...
Near the information desk in the Coryell offices hangs this "NOTICE TO SALESMEN: You are cordially welcome in these offices but please get to your point quickly, state your facts, get through and leave. We are very, very busy. Call again...
...twitchy that he started a new Western Auto Supply Co. on the Pacific Coast, which now has more stores (over 200) than the original company. Familiar to most coast motorists is Western's emblem, "Saving Sam," a model of which stands as a mascot on the Pepperdine desk. Together Mr. Pepperdine's twin creations sold $35,000,000 worth of automobile equipment last year, but Mr. Pepperdine at 50 is as restless as ever...
...election of Harry Jr. to the board of a corporation with $342,000,000 in assets seemed to require an official explanation from the chairman. Said Father Sinclair last week: "My son's election to the Board does not mean that he is going to have a mahogany desk and a big salary. It is simply a part of his education. . . . When he has completed his course as a roustabout, pipe liner and in the refineries, it will be time enough to find out what his job is going to be. In the meanwhile, he will draw our common...