Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once downstairs, the hi-fi set goes on, and Adams reads the morning papers while Rachel prepares breakfast (fruit, two eggs and-he thinks-Sanka). He is at the White House desk, emblazoned with the Seal of the President of the U.S., by 7:30, plunging deep into the stack of papers that never seems to diminish. The rest of the day is accurately crowded: conferences, sometimes as many as three at a time, with Adams circulating among them; a parade of visitors; dozens of telephone calls; and, always, papers and more papers. Generally, Adams takes time out only...
...White House lobby just in time to keep an appointment with a visitor who was already waiting in the anteroom. Spotting the caller, Adams motioned toward his office with the crook of a finger and said: "In." Inside, Adams pointed and said: "Chair." The visitor sat down near the desk. Hat and coat still on, Adams opened several envelopes marked "Confidential." He pressed a buzzer and summoned an assistant staff secretary. Adams handed the aide a paper and ordered: "Send this to Gettysburg . . . Seems self-explanatory-but add any necessary comment." A telephone rang. Adams picked it up. "That...
Into a Pittsburgh stockbroker's office last week walked a man with $300,000 in his pocket. Said he, plunking the money on the broker's desk: "Put it in Ford.'' Buy-Ford fever was running high throughout the U.S., as Ford Motor Co. prepared for the Jan. 18 launching of its first public stock sale (TIME, Nov. 14). The Ford Foundation, owner of the stock to be sold, had asked brokers and dealers to allot each customer initially no more than 100 shares. But it looked as if most customers would be lucky...
...General's Desk. The papers were found after the death of the daughter of Civil War General John Henry Hammond. Just how the general came by them, no one was quite sure. But there they were, all wrapped up in old newspapers and tucked inside his desk and under another desk top. The Minnesota Historical Society authenticated them, found that they covered the entire formation of the expedition. With the permission of one heir, the society took them over and began to edit them. But when the news broke that they might be worth $20,000, other heirs filed...
Often, before Early Riser Truman signed a single document in the stack he found on his desk each morning, he would first plow through the fronts, temperatures and meandering isobars, check his own predictions against the experts' forecasts. In Kansas City last week, Truman confided that, although it is now impractical for the bureau to send him the big maps he used to fuss with, he "sure would like to get them" again. Weatherman Truman sided with the much-maligned experts, too. Asked why Kansas City had been blanketed by an unexpected snow that very morning, Harry Truman chuckled...