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Word: desks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hrer reputedly assured Friend Freeman-Mitford some time ago that he would investigate the Princess' parentage. What he found has not been revealed but, at any rate, his portrait, inscribed "To my dear Princess," still adorns the desk of Princess Stephanie's London flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Missions | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...Supreme Court Justice was teaching four classes, and his place in those courses will be filled by three men. Thomas R. Powell, Langdell Professor of Law, takes over in Administrative Law; Professor Henry M. Hart will go behind the desk in Federal Jurisdiction; and Dean Landis is putting himself in to handle both Public Utilities and Labor Law. In other words, no pronounced swing, to the Right is contemplated...

Author: By A STAFF Reporter, | Title: FRANKFURTER EXIT MEANS MUCH LAW FACULTY CHANGE | 1/25/1939 | See Source »

That Hormel executives are classed as employes and will share in the plan is altogether logical. For Jay Hormers executives go to work at the same time as his packers-7:30 in summer-and President Hormel works at a steel desk that is exactly like 250 other steel desks in Hormel's single vast executive office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAGES: One-Year Plans | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...money he wrote a horror story, Sanctuary. It was rejected, too. He got a job shoveling coal at the Oxford power plant for $100 a month, working from 6 p. m. to 6 a. m. From midnight until 4 a. m. he wrote, using an upturned wheelbarrow for a desk. On it he wrote As I Lay Dying, rewrote Sanctuary, laid out his series of connected novels dealing with the mythical, haunted, decadent Southern town of Jefferson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When the Dam Breaks | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Rena Stinson, 27, expert rifle shot and personal secretary to Democratic Governor-reject Walter A. Huxman of Kansas, closed her desk in the State Capitol for the last time last week as her chief went out of office. She went home, began to clean her target rifle, shot herself in the left breast, almost but not quite fatally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: Term's End | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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