Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heartily approve of your selection. I criticize, however, the picture you ran of him sitting at his desk, next to a large brass cuspidor. If Mr. Curtice likes to indulge in a quiet chew of plug tobacco, it is all right with me, but the majority of people consider this a filthy habit...
Late Communiqué. With Big Joe out on the Romany road, frustrated Magistrate Murtagh was forced to content him self with ordering Adams and Lee to pay half their fines immediately or go to jail. They paid. Meantime, Saul Allen, returning to his office, found waiting on his desk the latest postcard from Big Joe. "Dear Saul: Just a card to let you know that I just arrived here from Atlanta, Ga. Spoke to Zeke Williams there, and he told me he is sending you what he owes for tickets. I also spoke to other boys, and they promised...
...Lunkhead." For its opening witness in three days of Washington hearings, the subcommittee, headed by Mississippi Democrat James O. Eastland, called slight, white-haired James Glaser, 56, a copyreader on the Fair-Dealing New York Post. Glaser said that he was a Communist when he worked on a copy desk of the Times, which he quit in 1934 to become managing editor of the Daily Worker at a 35% cut in salary. He told a vivid story of his buffeting in that job (see below). Two years later he worked up "the strength" to quit both the party...
Seymour Peck, 38, a desk man on the Times Sunday Magazine who joined the paper in 1952, also fought shy of naming onetime Communist associates, while he admitted his own party membership from 1935 to 1949. Like Whitman, he did not claim the refuge of the Fifth Amendment to protect himself against selfincrimination. Peck, a onetime staffer of the now defunct Communist-line New York Compass, simply refused to answer, despite the subcommittee's repeated warnings that he was risking a contempt citation...
...other Times employees invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering at least some questions: ¶ Jack Shafer, 44, foreign-desk copyreader for nearly seven years, who testified that the Times fired him before the hearings started, when he indicated that he would duck behind the Fifth. ¶ Nathan Aleskovsky, 43, assistant to the editor of the Sunday Book Review section, where he worked for five years. He denied that he is now a Communist, but would not say if he had belonged to the party. He said that the Times had demanded and got his resignation...