Word: desks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joined the Philadelphia Public Ledger, for which he covered the Greco-Turk War and the advent of Mussolini. In 1925 the New York Times sent him to report the Riff War. He was assigned successively to the Times' Vienna and Geneva bureaus, and after a year on their cable desk in New York he was sent back to take charge of the Geneva office. Although he is now on an indefinite leave of absence, he has been transferred to the paper's Washington bureau...
...evening of a House dance. In the Library, lights were low, the fire blazing, a radio softly cooing. Happy couples were resting from the ardors of the dance, enjoying the soothing half-darkness. Amidst it all sat the librarian at his desk, a stern, uncompromising figure, bending over a book, "It Can't Happen Here...
...entertaining. Never has he been host to as many guests as during this year. Youngest of the three big European dictators (Mussolini is 55, Stalin about 60), he works the least of any of them. He rarely bothers with details, has no capacity for long, tedious hours at his desk, is able to delegate power to trusted subordinates...
Most sensational piece of evidence unearthed by the Guild was a memorandum from Managing Editor Edwin L. James to Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, found on the desk of Times Auditor Harry Weinstock. The memorandum referred to a Communist leaflet circulated through the Times. It said: "The spies report that some of the auditing people are back of this. Maybe it will amuse Mr. Weinstock to try to find...
...Rivera wrote a letter to his (and Trotsky's) good friend, the French surrealist poet, André Bréton, gave it to one of Trotsky's secretaries to type. Léon Trotsky chanced to see a copy of the letter on the secretary's desk, and before he could stop himself, he had read enough to get very angry at Rivera's un-revolutionary and disloyal words. Trotsky made some remarks about Rivera. Rivera found the remarks "unacceptable." Trotsky dispatched a friend to Rivera with 200 pesos ($40) as rent...