Word: desks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many and many a newsreader who never heard of his own paper's city editor, knows about Stanley Walker. In six years as city editor of the New York Herald Tribune youthful Stanley Walker has be come something of a legend. He has escaped the anonymity of desk work often enough to produce articles for Harper's, American Mercury, Forum and The New Yorker, a best-selling book (The Night Club Era ) and to pose for a full-page testimonial for Gruen watches in the Satevepost. He is reputed one of the ablest news executives in the land...
Dreiser's report of the Wilkes-Barre trial last week likewise was an indictment of the "system." And, like the novel, his accounts were turgid, myopic, verbose, sorely needing the astringent blue pencil of a copy desk. He seemed to be arguing that had the boy had more money, he would not have got himself or his girl into trouble. Clearest point: "I am inclined to agree with the French that crimes which concern love and passion and the ambition of youth are nothing which the law, in its cold, calculating and in the main commercial mood, should have anything...
...Justice's desk lay Mrs. Vanderbilt's petition for a writ of habeas corpus to compel Mrs. Whitney to surrender Gloria. Week before, charged Mrs. Vanderbilt, "The child said she wanted to go to Central Park with her nurse to feed the pigeons. . . . Shortly thereafter she was spirited out of the house by said nurse, Emma Keislich, without being brought back to your petitioner to say goodby. . . . The nurse took the infant to Mrs. Whitney's home and the infant has been confined and detained there ever since against the will and consent of your petitioner...
...time getting back to the Herald Tribune Building a block from Times Square. Her office is in a corner of the sixth floor, one story above the city room. It is a man's room. Seated in a man's chair, at a man's desk, Mrs. Reid looks singularly small and frail. Tiny she is; frail she is not. Her grey hair is bobbed and waved, and her thin straight lips are carefully rouged, but the wife of the president of the Herald Tribune is anything but pliant. She moves slowly, speaks slowly in a voice...
...Major K. K. V. Casey of the du Pont company kept the stamp on his desk and had sole responsibility as to which of the du Fonts' vast bales of incriminating documents deserved the "Poison Label" and which did not. Donald Y. Wemple is a minor employe of the Nye Committee...