Word: desk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time since Franklin Roosevelt entered the White House, Senator Borah sat down to lunch with him from trays on the Presidential desk...
...quiet morning at the German Foreign Office with Baron von Neurath and without Adolf Hitler. Abruptly at the last minute the morning-coated English and German diplomats were summoned to the Realm-chancellery where they found The Leader lounging in a loose brown jacket behind his great, document-piled desk...
...manager of the Rochester Post-Express. He had much to do with the Times's prosperity and with its rigidly high standards of advertising. He was a stickler for efficiency, a pocket-sized dynamo of energy. As many as 18 hours a day he might sit at his desk, his dwarfed body perched on a high cushion, his feet touching a tall hassock beneath the desk. A half dozen visitors or subordinates usually sat in chairs around the walls, waiting their turn to talk with Mr. Wiley. He was quietly, courteously brisk. While listening intently to an underling...
...effected this compromise was reported to have been made between the President and New York's Senator Wagner, who exacted in exchange the Administration's support for his Labor Relations Bill. Within a week observers expected that the Relief Bill would be on the President's desk and that the Congressional jam which has held up all important New Deal legislation for the past ten weeks would be definitely cracked...
...their boss to see that life flows smoothly for the Princess, a task made difficult because she resents any benefactions sponsored by Toledo. Faced with the problem of getting her a new hack horse, they hire a professional horse thief from a Madison Square Garden rodeo. He is a desk cowboy with wild eyeballs who in the picture's most hilarious sequence steals the year's outstanding race horse, Gallant Godfrey. Things go on like this until the climax at the race track. Gallant Godfrey, returned to his owner, runs against Toledo's horse and makes everybody...