Word: desk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Half an hour after adjournment the Senate floor was empty except for some charwomen standing hesitantly around the walls and a lone Senator bent over his desk with head in arms. Lifting his head with a start, Leader Robinson glanced at the waiting charwomen, gathered up a bundle of papers, trudged wearily...
Obviously disappointed, he approached the venerable professor, laid the paper on the desk, and respectfully asked an explanation of the wretched grade, hinting that an 'A-plus' would have been much more satisfactory...
...dislike Secretary Ickes because he would not listen to their pleas for political patronage or for "pork" from the $3,300,000,000 Public Works fund he administers. To save time he would receive Congressional callers at his office in batches, require them to come up to his desk and whisper their requests. Senator Sheppard of Texas once had to wait eight days to get a private appointment. So intense was the feeling against Secretary Ickes at the Capitol last week that House Democrats refused to vote an additional $4,000,000,000 for public works and emergency relief until...
...sixth floor of No. 41 Broad Street, Manhattan, one day last week trooped a delegation of newshawks looking for an office door on which was freshly stenciled the name "C. E. Mitchell, Inc." Admitted by a solitary office boy, the reporters found Charles Edwin Mitchell seated behind a small desk, nervously puffing cigarets. In his own words the bankless banker was a "poor fellow going back into business...
...become and be a good President simply by sitting down behind the Presidential desk, while another man would not be a good President in spite of the elaborate (and expensive, you must admit) inauguration that put him into office...