Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When these and other curious events and operations in GSA came to light, Congress, the White House and the Department of Justice began to take a quizzical look at Mansure's managership. The eventual result was the polite and pointed exchange of letters. As he cleaned out his desk last week, Mansure expressed a bit of philosophy that explained a great deal. "I stand by my friends," he said. "I felt about Balmer the same way Harry Truman felt about Pendergast...
Followed by counterespionage agents, his telephone tapped while he was heading the American desk at the Foreign Office, Maclean was allegedly driven to desperation, while the hell-raising Burgess was depicted as a man racked with "the greatest anxiety . . . caused by the fact that at first no modus vivendi was reached be tween the East and West, and later on no attempts were made to reach...
...other account, voiced by ex-boss Leighton behind his steel-gray, James Hall desk, was that Harry got just what everyone gets. "We've got no obligation, you know," he said...
...trusted staff officers drew up operations plans for dealing with a revolt by i) civilians, 2) the air force, 3) the navy, or 4) the air force and navy together. Eight men alone knew of the existence of these plans, kept in four sealed envelopes in a locked desk drawer in the War Ministry...
Over Sherwood's desk the group photographs were of Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe, Keats, Byron, Shelly, Longfellow, Gilbert, Tennyson, Poe and others, but right in the center was an enlarged picture of Robert Emmet Sherwood that nobody could possibly overlook. Above my piano I had an equally large picture of music publisher Powers, surrounded by photographs and prints of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Sullivan, Wagner, Bizet, Liszt and others. Sherry and Powers associated only with the best. Nights when our shows were produced we would get over to the "Pudding Theatre" ahead of time and see that the folders holding the scores...