Word: desks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...find TIME a real snappy periodical and read it more thoroughly than any other magazine that comes to my desk...
...last evening to see a mist rising out of the sidewalks, something they had not seen before. A more than clever member of the Squantum, or the Dorchester, force, remarked that the mist was in a sense a significant item and seemed really romantic. But the captain at the desk suggested that there was in it more the suggestion of a classic influence. So both played checkers for two hours in the hope of solving the problem...
...genesis there is no question that it was a comedy of misintention. When Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews laid it upon Mr. Mellon's desk; when Mr. Mellon nodded his head and sent it to the President; when the President looked down at the routine sheet before him and affixed his signature?none of them expected that the little sheet of paper would arouse attention, much less controversy. For two weeks thereafter the little sheet lay around somewhere without exciting any interest, and then quite casually some prohibition officer handed it to the press for publication. This...
...order should prove oppressive the order would probably be modified. His description of his action prompted some journalists to remark that it paralleled the procedure of Attorney General Sargent, who when asked a question by the press sometimes picks up a report from his desk and reads it, then if asked another question answers, "I have nothing more before...
...Goyim" (Christian) hotels which discriminate against Jews. The dapper clerk, a trained ethnologist, addresses it to any prospective guest whose name, dress, manners or lineaments might indicate that he is a Jew. U. S. Jews, many of them wealthy, finely educated, have heard this question, turned away from the desk, and had the bellboy carry their bags back to the taxicab...