Word: desks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...produce customers is to balance the Federal budget at once. I say to him-'How?' Sometimes he says-'How should I know? That is your job.' Sometimes he says-'Cut the budget straight through 10% or 20%.' Then I take from my desk drawer a fat book and it is apparent at once that he never has seen or read the budget of the Government of the United States...
...public could even troop through Mr. Morgan's study, with its Bellini and Memling paintings on the walls, its desk ready to write a letter or sign a check at, its fire neatly laid for the next chill night. Nothing was said about coughing, but Library guards looked as if they could spot a soiled thumb a mile...
Walter Bowes is 56, Walter H. Wheeler Jr., 42. Walter Bowes is nervous, restless; he hates a desk and office hours, prefers to putter about his home. Walter Wheeler is the reverse, has steady nerves and a passion for detail, likes to organize. One thing this antipodal pair have in common is a love of sailing. In 1929 Yachtsman Bowes sailed his six-meter Saleema to an international championship. In 1938 Yachtsman Wheeler won the Astor cup with his Q class Cottonblossom II. Messrs. Bowes and Wheeler have still another thing in common, their business-Pitney-Bowes Postage Meter...
...came at last to old age and the problem of how to dispose of the gains from 60 years of grubbing by one of the cagiest father-son money-making teams in U. S. history. A bachelor, Henry Putnam Jr. consulted no one, cocked his feet on his old desk, wrote a will. Last year he died. Last week it became known that after specific bequests to hospitals and other charities, he left the bulk of his estate, $8,000,000, to four female cousins, all over 70; that, although he was no college man, he had provided that after...
...odds with modern commercial society. He is proud of the pioneer work the Museum has done, prouder that "last year our traveling shows were exhibited in over 250 cities and towns. . . ." He admires the great art collectors but has not emulated them. He buys sculpture for his desk (last week he had a woodcarving by William Steig), paintings for his walls, wishes that all men could do the same. As president, he wants to put the imaginative and lucid work of Alfred Barr and Co. into even greater circulation...