Word: desks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story of the Harris Amendment must now leave the halls of the Capitol and be resumed in a building across the park. There an ancient office equipped with a creaking rolltop desk is proclaimed by a weather-worn sign on second story windows...
...that guy is going up to the desk. No, he's saying something about table twenty-seven. I know, I have see his lips move. How?. . . .I had an Aunt Minna, who used to stay with us. Sit down, Joe. You never could catch him through the Delivery Desk. By now he's halfway down. Next time we will. Tomorrow you sit over near that door and I'll sit at this one and then when he comes you come over and get me or I'll come over...
...sent you over here? How're things at the Main Desk? No. nobody here. I know that guy that tipped you off, though. He's a crank. Writes complaints all the time about you fellows at the Main Desk cracking wise. Sure. Ignore him. Tell the boss me and Joe said Ignore...
...three, Joe. I gotta study. Quit bothering me. I'll report you to the Desk...
...hour later Mr. Young was back at 120 Broadway, behind his business-like desk, facing reporters. For a whole month he has refused to talk; but now he put words like pistol shots, with candor and precision. More was learned in five minutes about the new Committee and what it purposes to accomplish than correspondents have been able to guess in the last six months...