Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last January a reasonable, workable program for preventing union abuses, that the Democratic Senate had watered it down, and Republican prodding (mostly by California's Bill Knowland) had put some starch back into it. In the House, said Mitchell, Speaker Sam Rayburn let the bill age on his desk "40 days and 40 nights" before referring it to the anarchic House Labor Committee, chaired by North Carolina's molasses-moving Graham Barden...
Bernard Goldfine was back in his Boston, and his friend Sherman Adams was still at his White House desk-but by no means was all right with their world last week. With slow-moving precision, Arkansas' Oren Harris got his House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight to vote a unanimous recommendation that Goldfine be cited for contempt of the House for his refusal to answer 22 questions during gaudy hearings before the subcommittee on the operations of his Boston real estate companies. Then Chairman Harris got the parent House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee to add its unanimous endorsement. This...
...Palestine when a German-backed army coup momentarily toppled his government during World War II. On their return to Baghdad, their son Ahlam was born in 1942. Though at first opposed to the marriage, Nuri Pasha used to dandle little Ahlam on his knee, kept his picture on his desk...
...first press conference, Premier el-Kassim, 42, who sleeps on a pallet in front of his desk and is regarded as a rugged, strict and upright soldier, appeared to be anxious to show his good faith. He told of how he dreamed of wiping out corruption way back when he was in military college, of how he slowly gathered his band of followers, of how "the agents and spies" of the old regime almost caught up with him in 1956. Finally, when in early July he was ordered into Jordan to bolster King Hussein, El-Kassim "read in the eyes...
Rebels by Phone. British Newsmen Richard Beeston of the London News Chronicle and John Mossman of the London Daily Herald hung their cab with pictures of Nasser to disarm Iraqi border guards, drove through 130° heat from Damascus to Baghdad. (From the Herald's foreign desk to Mossman came the wry plea: "For God's sake, put up the meter flag!") TIME-LIFE'S Correspondent Robert Morse and Photographer Larry Burrows made it along the same route, found Baghdad street peddlers doing a brisk trade hawking pictures of the mutilated bodies of Premier Nuri asSaid...