Word: desks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again, again & again the telephone on Professor Harold Clayton Urey's littered desk rang one afternoon last week. "Thank you," said Dr. Urey to friends, students, colleagues. "Thank you....Thank you....Thank you." Someone brought into his office on Columbia University's campus a woodcock captured on a windowsill of the chemistry building. Dr. Urey suggested the bird be taken out of the city and freed in the woods. He was in a jovial mood. Word had just arrived from Stockholm that he had been awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize for Chemistry...
...last week James Aloysius Farley could dress up in a dinner coat, sit on a desk in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, grin like an Easter egg, swing his feet and very properly crow: "The New Deal has been magnificently sustained. . . . Our majority in the U. S. Senate and our ma jority in the House. . . . The greatest plurality ever given to Democratic candidates...
...soon as it becomes apparent that Evelyn Prentice has a plot, seasoned cinemaddicts will easily guess the rest. The fact that the blackmailing poet keeps a revolver and a diary in his desk clearly indicates a murder to come. That John Prentice is a crack lawyer suggests a courtroom scene in which he will extricate his wife from difficulties. A squeaking little Prentice (Cora Sue Collins) guarantees that her parents will be estranged and reconciled. Although Evelyn Prentice is far from being an experiment, in either art or advertising, its conventional coils are expertly twisted and untwisted. For the most...
Even F. W. Dodge's building figures, which do not include all of the small repair work which FHA is promoting, showed a clean 100% gain for alterations and additions in the first nine months of 1934. FHAdministrator James Andrew Moffett's desk was high-piled with such messages as: ''Sacramento reports 1,000 increased employment in the building trades this month over last. Material dealers extremely busy and painters not to be had.''* Companies like Johns-Manville, National Radiator. U. S. Radiator, Sears Roebuck, were all cashing in on the great drive...
...first things she did was to move the millinery department down to the street floor, with the result that hat sales tripled. New departments were organized, floors remodeled, Grand Duchess Marie of Russia installed to run a photography studio. Last week at the president's desk in her walnut-paneled office Mrs. Odlum announced her slogan: "High class but not high hat." Last week Founder Bonwit retired, ostensibly because of ill health. General Manager Walter Bonwit, son of the founder, remains as Mrs. Odlum's righthand...