Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these and uncounted, uncountable others were problems last week for a slender, balding man who sat talking softly, hands clasped around updrawn knee, behind his desk in a limestone building on Washington's Constitution Avenue. He is Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., 53, whose awesome duty it is to apply, on behalf of the U.S. Government, the constants of law to a time of explosive change...
...Security Storm. Herbert Brownell became acquainted with this loneliness in his first days as Attorney General. When Dwight Eisenhower took office, he found on his desk the plea for clemency of Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Brownell recommended against clemency. The Rosenberg execution was set for the Friday of June 19, 1953, at dusk because the Jewish Sabbath begins at sundown. Worldwide pressure against the execution was tremendous, the Pope used his good offices for mercy, more than 5,000 pickets chanted party-line slogans in front of the White House. Brownell quietly advised the President to go ahead...
...house, Bradshaw and girl friend sang out the story of the dynamiting and allowed the newsman to copy tape-recorded conversations by the four other goons who had done the job. With affidavits from Bradshaw and girl friend in hand, Brislin turned his story in to the Tribune city desk and handed over his evidence to the district attorney. Within three days all four dynamiters had con fessed. Brislin's continuing exclusive sto ries in the Tribune and a sustained editorial barrage by the Times led to grand-jury indictments against six local union leaders and four of their...
...CRIMSON news candidate yesterday pleaded "not guilty" in Third District Court to charges that he attempted to steal a wallet from the desk of a Cambridge police sergeant...
...already become the subject for serious dissertations by professional budget cutters across the nation. How would the President get out of this one? First crack off the bat, the question came about Edgar's opinions. The President paused for an instant, tapped his finger gently on his desk, grinned and answered. "Edgar," he said quietly, "has been criticizing me since I was five years old." The problem dissolved in a roar of laughter...