Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Metcalf suggests that the University combine the two catalogues on the first floor, thus permitting 2,000,000 duplicate cards to be thrown away. The Library would build a new charging desk and stack entrance there--"in the middle of the ten stack levels, replacing the present main entrance which is on the eighth level...
...Elysée Palace in Paris, President of the Republic Vincent Auriol drummed his fingers on the desk at which Napoleon I signed his abdication after Waterloo. Intent on a journey, Vincent Auriol was trying to remember if everything, every last detail, had been taken care of. This week he (with his wife Michele) sails on the Ile de France, the first French President to visit...
...balancing economic scales. He is supposed to keep food prices down, but the law prevents him from tampering with most farm prices. With one ear he has to listen to the complaints of wage earners and housewives over rising prices; with the other, he tunes in on the desk thumps of Pentagon brass demanding special price exemptions for vast orders of critical materials, and the bleats of lobbyists, Congressmen and Senators, who are all for price control so long as it doesn't control the dried bean or the beefsteak or the cotton boll or the sphygmo-oscillometer...
...Chairman G. Edward Rowe. Rowe thought it "imperative" that he resign at once. "You just resign and say the committee crucified you," Rowe told him. "I think that will straighten out the whole matter." To be helpful, Rowe even dictated the letter for him, and left it on his desk for signature. Demanded Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart: "In other words, he wanted to make you the fall guy?" Said Dunham sadly: "I think that I was to be the goat...
Brown was busy in Homicide's second-floor office when we arrived at the Berkeley Street headquarters. The desk sergeant told us to wait. Brown would be glad to see us in a first floor waiting room. He walked out of the elevator about ten minutes later, a stocky, sandy-haired man in a neat brown business suit. He knew about the Traveler story and he was indignant: "Nobody ever saw me about this," he said. "It is absolutely untrue . . . it has no basis in fact." He told us that he was working on an extradition from Jersey City...