Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Speaker Sam Rayburn kept the Senate-passed Kennedy-Ives labor reform bill "on the Speaker's desk," and thus ready for floor action under special committee-bypassing rules, despite insistent protests of the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that the bill ought to go through the normal committee channel. If sent to committee so late in the session, the bill would die there, and that is just what the N.A.M. and the Chamber want. Reason: they object to half a dozen minor Taft-Hartley revisions, e.g., requiring employers to report to the Labor...
...Administration paid for convenience. The ethical standards applied to Sherman Adams now had to be applied to lesser Government employees. Last week's hearings revealed that two secretaries, one of them a secretary to Adams who worked within 75 feet of the President's desk, had received Goldfine checks, ranging from $35 to $75. They could hardly be fired, indeed, they could hardly be reprimanded-least of all by their staff chief, Sherman Adams, by whom Goldfine had done better. The Administration was on a hook, partly by deliberate choice. And there no longer seemed...
...Sommer's bunker-where, according to former SS Judge Konrad Morgen, Sommer kept a secret compartment, concealed in the floor under his desk, to hide torture instruments and the needles with which he shot carbolic acid and air into his victims' veins. Sommer often laid the bodies beneath his bed for the night...
...pension from the government. But his wife, who is suffering from asthma, recently learned how to make artificial flowers, and the family is expected to live on the proceeds of that work. Lajos Ordass is an unforgettable figure, reading his Bible at a desk that is cluttered with scraps of colored paper, paint brushes and artificial petals...
...back to wait until the Russian censor lifted the blackout. But in a cluttered, dingy office in the Manchester Guardian's London bureau, rumpled, high-domed Victor Zorza grabbed a street map of Moscow, picked out the police stations nearest the German embassy. Minutes later, a desk man in Moscow's police station 88 picked up his telephone, was astounded to find himself talking to a British newspaper man who grilled him in perfect Russian. Moscow's cops chatted amiably but guardedly with Zorza -particularly after he confided piously that his capitalist boss might dock...