Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serve as a reporter, too." Recently Segal complained to Reland, his wife, about the trouble he was having in finding family pictures for the cover story on Treasury Secretary George Humphrey. The next day, a photo of Humphrey & grandchildren in a pony cart turned up on Segal's desk (TIME, Jan. 26). Mrs. Segal had got it from Mrs. Humphrey...
...kept a watchful eye on his appointment schedule, hoping for a chance to slip away to the Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club for a long weekend of golf and semi-privacy. Last fortnight a balky schedule kept him at home. But on Thursday afternoon last week, leaving a clean desk behind, the President climbed aboard his plane, the Columbine, Georgia bound...
While the blizzard of paperwork swept across Dwight Eisenhower's desk last week, the streams of visitors continued to flow in through the White House front door. There were more liaison luncheons with Congressmen. The Cabinet met as usual, with the now-standard minute of silent prayer to start the meeting, and the Secretaries came to the executive wing by a new route: their cars were brought in through a side gate to the back door, off limits to reporters and photographers. One morning congressional leaders turned up at 8 a.m. for orange juice and coffee, and a briefing...
When the President arrived, he was accompanied only by Press Aides Jim Hagerty and Murray Snyder, in place of the large Government staff who regularly attended Truman's press conferences. He took his place behind the desk in the front of the room and briefly posed for the photographers; then he clasped his hands behind his back and began talking...
Command Decisions. From his 23rd-floor, Gateway Center headquarters in Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle, Price runs his side of the race with all the quiet, unspectacular efficiency of one of his electric motors. No desk-pounder, when he wants something done, he offers it as a polite suggestion. But if it isn't done, Price is apt to remind a deputy: "When I make a suggestion. I don't mean it to be ignored." His aides have learned that he has "a whim of iron." He always uses the direct approach, either phones a man or sees...