Word: desks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor of Wisconsin: he admonished the Public Service Commissioners present to "be fair to industry, that the men & women who have money invested may gain a little interest on the money which they have earned by the sweat of their brows." When he finally did go to his executive desk at Madison and held his first press conference, he forbade reporters to smoke. He said, "What message?" when they asked what he was going to say to the Legislature. Reporters explained and he said he would "put some one to work on it." He fixed the salaries of his secretary...
...made a fortune in San Francisco real estate, has lately majored in mortgages and mines as well as land banks in which he has an investment of some $19,000,000. He claims to have had no vacation in 35 years, plays golf in the 70s and on his desk has a picture, not of Giannini, but of Napoleon...
...every Cabinet meeting. It was told that as a child he loved his dog so deeply that he learned to bark and bury bones; that as an idealistic experimenter he had lost twelve pounds trying to live on a diet of corn; that he so disliked his big mahogany desk when he went to the Department of Agriculture that he worked on only...
...office with a desk on which there is a buzzer, and if he can press that buzzer and have somebody come dashing in response-then he's an executive," i.e., exempt from the law's overtime regulations...
...bargain with printers and illustrators, runs his swanky Madison Avenue offices like an efficiency expert. Within walking distance is his Park Avenue home, where he lives with the pretty mother of his Linda, 7, his Jonathan, 1. He races to his office before nine, usually eats lunch at his desk, stays long after his 25 employes have gone home. Last year he organized Heritage Club, a subsidiary for mass-production of imitation limited editions at $2.50 a copy. Also last year he bought control of England's famed Nonesuch Press, has now intensified his transatlantic commuting schedule...