Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barkley this was a high-handed, impetuous insult to the Democratic majority. Solemnly he rose at his front-row desk in the Senate and, in a low and sometimes choking voice, told off Franklin Roosevelt for "his effort to belittle and discredit Congress." He concluded: "Mr. President, let me say . . . that if the Congress of the United States has any self-respect yet left, it will override the veto." The Senate roared, cheered and stamped. The veto was overridden in both houses. At a party caucus Barkley resigned as F.D.R.'s majority leader and, minutes later, was unanimously...
Eileen Fahey was blonde, pretty, 18 years old, a secretary and bookkeeper; now she was lying sprawled on the floor beside her desk, dead, with five .22-cal. pistol bullets in her body. To the band of New York homicide detectives who looked down at her last week, all this seemed less startling than her surroundings. The quiet offices of the American Physical Society at Columbia University seemed the most unlikely spot in Manhattan for murder...
...solely responsible for the victory of Calvin Coolidge-given proper power, he wanted to do the trick for Ike, too. But most of his ilk were politely turned away by pretty, blonde Sally Pillsbury of the famed flour family, a volunteer worker who toiled at the Eisenhower reception desk. A scourge of drunks arrived too, and were yanked out to fresh air by Chicago policemen...
...work of TIME'S correspondents-in the convention hall, at the delegates' meetings, in the candidates' headquarters-will be coordinated at a news desk in the Conrad Hilton Hotel. There Washington Bureau Chief James Shepley, who covers politics in and out of season, will share with Lawrence Laybourne, chief of TIME Inc.'s U.S. and Canadian correspondents, the task of making assignments, and of tying together correspondents' reports. By the time the candidate is nominated, TIME'S editors will already have begun culling their own on-the-spot observations to bring you a report...
Arthur Gérane had vexed Judge Gßrane for years. He had run away from college, wasted his money, refused to go to work. It was the last straw when Arthur rifled his father's desk-and then rammed the family car into a tree in making his getaway. Judge Gérane had Arthur committed to an asylum as a psychopath...