Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blackout request raised the question: Should the press ever abrogate its duty of reporting the news? All wire services and morning dailies except one readily promised to observe the police deadline. The holdout: the Daily News, where a reporter promised to relay the police request to the city desk and call back. By 8 p.m. Police Secretary John MacDonald started telephoning the other morning papers to get formal confirmation of their pledge to withhold the story. But, said police, at about 8:30 p.m., the News had called to say it could not hold the story; by then a small...
...Walter George, a Democrat soon to retire from the Senate, stood up behind his desk to speak one day last week, he was set to perform an intricate mission for a Republican Administration−a mission, as he saw it, in the national interest. The Senate was in the mood to go along with the House's deep cut of $1.1 billion in the Administration's $4.9 billion foreign-aid bill. Eloquent Walter George pleaded for the compromise $4.5 billion that his Senate Foreign Relations Committee had approved−and that the Administration had agreed to accept...
...problem of visualization, likes to start working early with models, is notoriously extravagant with paper. In a single evening he will run through 170 ft. of tracing paper; he made more than 2,000 drawings in revising his plan for the London embassy. A girl in his office, whose desk Saarinen sometimes uses late at night, inevitably knows when he has been there. Says she: "It's like slicing down through the excavations at Troy-tracing paper, tobacco, paper, paper, matches, more paper, a cigar stub, paper, paper, paper...
...newspaper the right to fire a staffer when it learns that he has a Communist past? The New York Times thought so last fall when it sacked Jack Shafer, 44, a copyreader on the Times's Foreign Desk. The paper said that it lost confidence in Shafer after a subpoena from Senate investigators prompted him to admit party membership in 1940-41 and again in 1946-48, before he joined the Times. Quick to protest was the Newspaper Guild. Grounds for its protest : the dismissal was without "good and sufficient cause" and thus a violation of its contract with...
...work he was doing, carefully unwrapped each bottle, put it to his cheek, and smacked his lips . . . Mencken's eyes bulged and glistened, his cheeks flushed, and he would gabble and gabble, spitting tobacco juice all the while into the large brass spittoon at the side of his desk...