Word: desks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...architects plan to remove the present book stacks on the second floor, and will make the whole floor a single reading room, with the distribution desk in the center...
...perhaps?when Mr. Creager walked into the White House last week, because early in November, when the Coolidge "choosiness" was at its foggiest, Mr. Creager was reported to have promised, in a characteristically red-headed moment, to walk right into the White House some day and "pound on the desk" and ask President Coolidge "just exactly what he meant by choosing not to run." People on the Rio Grande wanted to know, and the red-headed rooster thereof would find...
Around and about, in and out, hands in pockets, wandered gray-suited, round-shouldered Caraway of Arkansas, shrewd sarcastigator. He hates to sit down and seldom does so. This morning he was caught far from his desk, between two pages down in front, as the prayer began...
...White House: 'Come on over,' she said, 'Wernie wants to talk to you.' She always called the Pres ident 'Wernie.' I went over and found the President sitting all alone in his office and evidently very depressed. He said, 'Merry Christmas,' reached into a right-hand drawer of his desk, pulled out a plug of Piper Heidsieck and took a chew. He got up and looked out on the White House garden and said: 'Help yourself to a cigaret...
...Cigar and Schulte have been seeking to promote as their specialty since they merged their 5,000 retail stores as the Union & United Tobacco Corp. (TIME, Aug. 1). George J. Whelan, a founder of United Cigar Stores and for some years inactive in its affairs, has returned to his desk in Manhattan. He is there every day, cooperating vigorously with his brother Charles A. Whelan and with David A. Schulte of the firm...