Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private aide's office, private dining room, private conference room (which Ickes sometimes used as his bedroom) and private bathroom (where Ickes used to wipe his feet happily on a bath mat emblazoned with the Republican elephant). In Ickes' enormous room, at Ickes' great, gleaming desk, there now sits a successor who cares nothing for mussolinian magnificence: Douglas McKay, 61, veteran Chevrolet dealer -"the old car peddler," he calls himself-from Salem...
...Third Night. On the third night, the filibusterers were still going strong. At 2:18 a.m. by the Senate clock, Wayne Morse emerged from the outer darkness for a second round, this time with a red carnation. The desk beside him became a pantry, manned by his assistant. Morse guzzled milk, soup, four glasses of orange juice, three cups of tea. All the while, he solemnly complained that the soup had "enough pepper to choke a horse," that the juice was canned and the tea soapy. Between complaints he discussed such affairs of state as Alaska statehood, the Montana primary...
...head of the Bonn FBI. He drove to the apartment-office of Dr. Wolfgang Wohlgemuth, a busy, prosperous gynecologist who plays a hot trumpet, shares John's interest in woman-chasing, and is known to be a Communist. Sometime that evening, Wohlgemuth sat down at his desk and wrote a note: "The fact is that Dr. John will not return to the Western sector." Then they left together. Curiously enough, John left behind him in his hotel room a notebook that would have been useful had he intended selling...
...like a stock table, having served in six cabinets as Minister of Labor, Agriculture and Interior and briefly as Premier earlier this year. "I am sure," De Gasperi once prophesied, "that one of these days I will open the door to my study and find Fanfani sitting at my desk...
Last week, as Fanfani took the desk, he moved with the smooth punctilio that Italians appreciate and practice. Some pleasant "understandings" were quietly arranged. First Fanfani "urged" De Gasperi to continue as party secretary, and professed to be surprised when the old man said no. Presumably Fanfani then promised to back De Gasperi for President of Italy, a job with more prestige than power, which will probably fall vacant when 81-year-old Luigi Einaudi finishes his seven-year term next May. Fanfani also reportedly gave assurances of continued backing to the government of fellow Demo-Christian Mario Scelba...