Word: desks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desk in room 305 of Converse Laboratory a set of chemical flasks and test tubes have lain unused for thirty days. It was a month ago that the man who formerly manipulated them with masterly skill, until then in active and buoyant health at 72, was suddenly forced to a sickbed. Now they must go to another owner, for Elmer Peter Kohler passed away Tuesday morning...
Jubilee-bound Freshmen who would benefit by a special bus service between Wellesley and Cambridge are urged to put in their requests to the Jubilee Committee at the desk in the Union. The Committee will also handle the corsage orders from the Yardlings...
...noon that day, when the blank petition was placed on the Speaker's desk, a swarm of Representatives was already beginning to crowd the well of the House. Jostling each other to get at the fountain pen which Aunt Mary handed to the impatient signers, the House members became so boisterous that the sergeant at arms was called on to exert his authority, marshaled them into a queue which gradually wound half way around the chamber. So many members were in so much of a hurry to put their names on the petition that Speaker Bankhead, after calling hopelessly...
...officers during a bloody streetcar strike, survived a recall vote that followed the disorders and picked up a local reputation for political effectiveness. In 1928 he jumped the Democratic Party to work for Mr. Hoover. Mr. McNinch is against liquor (he keeps a vacuum jug of milk on his desk) and Mr. Al Smith is not. President Hoover rewarded Frank McNinch with a seat on the Federal Power Commission...
...reformer who is obviously honest, reasonably intelligent and backed by any considerable minority of the public. How can this be done? How can the newspapers become open-minded? I don't know. They might try to hire as doorkeepers in the house of the Lord on copy desks and in editorial chairs men who are free to make decisions . . . not controlled by an itch to move to the next higher desk by pleasing his High Potency who sits in the mahogany paneled room in front of the front of the front office. If owners would encourage a little chronic...