Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major government investigation. Senator Mundt played his hand carefully. Instead of starting the investigation immediately, when public opinion was strongly in favor of the Army, he waited two weeks on the pretext that he had to select a counsel. But he didn't have far to look. In his desk he had a letter from Samuel P. Sears '17, asking...
...should be little crowding of the office since the whole process would be brief and would require no line. In the afternoon, the staff could fill the orders at random with no special preference for the early comer. The next morning, senior would pick up their tickets at the desk while juniors are filling out orders; the H.A.A. staff would be working at a steady rate all through the day with no frantic crowds at any one time. The procedure would also take much less of the student's time, since he would not need to jostle about the offices...
...Tribune's Roscoe Drummond did the asking: What was the President's reaction to the speech made by Vermont's Senator Flanders (see col. 2). As President Eisenhower answered, the words boiled over each other; he slashed the air with his right hand; he struck his desk with the edge of his left hand. His words were temperate, but his anger was clear and deep...
Charge No. 1. The Vice President spoke without a prepared text, from nine penciled sheets of notes on yellow, lined paper. He sat alone at a desk in a Washington studio, talking calmly and persuasively in measured, simple language to a radio and television audience estimated at 10 million...
...will retire next month as board chairman of General Foods Corp. (Maxwell House coffee, Birds Eye frozen foods, Swans Down cake mixes, etc.). The mountain: the Government's vast and growing stocks of surplus agricultural products, which now total $2.7 billion. Francis took over a White House desk as presidential adviser on surpluses and chairman of a new interdepartmental committee on disposal plans...