Word: desks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...denied even the publicity of a common murderer, these helpless beings must stink along through the sewers of life under the ban of public disgust. If only curiosity, interest, some attention could be drawn to them. Perhaps through the book--The gavel of the magistrate raps fiercely on the desk. Even in the eyes of the law she is pushed aside. A smile of satisfaction spreads over the phlegmatic features of smug, heartless mankind. Cruel humanity plods on, its head high, leaving its poor sisters by the wayside, alone, out of the limelight. Was ever an abnormality dismissed with such...
...Lejeune's friends failed to induce him to seek reappointment. Eight years at a desk were, he thought, enough. He will pass his last 22 months of service in open field duty on Pacific Coast. President Coolidge sent Gen. Neville's name to the Senate for confirmation as of March...
...reorganization of the government, correspondents were regaled with hair-raising disclosures of former graft, plus assurances that wholesale padding of ministerial payrolls has ceased. There are said to have been some 500 government employes in the capital who never had a desk or a chair, and appeared at their offices only on payday. This state of affairs was said to have existed for decades, and through the prime ministry of Monsignor Anton Koroshetz (TIME, Jan. 14), who is now Minister of Transports and Railways...
...Johnston began to worry about what would happen to the interest payments if the "lapsations" began to fall off. Perturbed, he called the District Attorney's office and the Better Business Commission. It was at this point that Mr. Stillings reappeared, ornamented his colleague's desk...
Consider, for example, a scene which last week took place in the offices of a concern called Standard Diamond Co., Manhattan. President of the company is one Peter B. Johnston. Manager of the company is one George E. Stillings. On the president's desk is a large brass nameplate: "P. B. Johnston...