Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When that laconic message crossed his desk in 1932, Secretary of State Henry Stimson asked: Who is Willis? A look at the files revealed that Willis was Frances E. (for Elizabeth) Willis, 33, third secretary in the U.S. legation in Stockholm. In the absence of the minister and his top subordinates, Frances Willis had become the first woman ever to represent the U.S. abroad as a chief of mission, even an acting chief of mission...
Hollywood Beds. Patient 00-00-01 was made comfortable in a hospital bed, and there he had a good lunch. If he had not needed bed rest for observation, he would have had a room with a Hollywood bed and a desk, and would have taken his meals in a dining room with settings for 26. By week's end the Clinical Center had admitted 22 patients, aged 14 to 71; six for cancer studies, eight with heart and artery diseases, two diabetics, four with arthritis and two for studies of blood distribution...
...unusual answer. On newsstands all over the country and out to subscribers went 100,000 copies of a brand-new, 25?, adless, pocket-size monthly: Democratic Digest, the first commercial magazine ever published by a major U.S. political party. On its cover is a Republican elephant sitting behind a desk reading from a large book titled How to Balance the Budget, while a smaller volume concealed inside is called How to Break 90. Its 112 partisan pages are a light-reading combination of barbs at the Republican administration and an "official" magaphone for the Democratic Party...
...White House desk, President Eisenhower last week signed a Declaration of Freedom drawn up by the fundamentalist National Association of Evangelicals and based on "seven divine freedoms" found in the 23rd Psalm. The seven...
Hell & Unemployment Compensation. The papers go after spot news with the same vigor they apply to a crusade. Last year, after the city desk picked up news of a $51,000 bank robbery, the papers sent out two-way radio cars to chase the police and the fleeing robber. Their coverage of the chase won the staff the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting "under pressure of deadlines." At the head of that 220-man staff is Publisher Sevellon Brown, 66, who has bossed the papers for the past 32 years...