Word: desks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned up at the White House on the day of the conference, even veterans chuckled at the "truth party" the President had prepared. No sooner had the doors closed on the conference room where the three directors were seated in a semicircle in front of the President's desk, with Secretary Steve Early directing a battery of stenographers who took complete notes of the proceedings in relays, than a serious hitch developed in Showman Roosevelt's plans. Like a stern county magistrate, the President announced that he would take up Chairman Morgan's charges first, the majority...
...Attorney General's office snapped, "We won't fight over the body." Dick Whitney surrendered, was booked at the Elizabeth St. police-station while a group of Bowery derelicts were momentarily herded from the desk. After the prisoner had been searched, Desk Lieutenant Simon P. Breen remarked as though one of the neighborhood boys had gone wrong: "Mr. Whitney, I'm sorry to see you in this trouble and wish you luck...
...Embassy in Grosvenor Square, the Ambassador cocked his feet up on his highly-polished desk, to the satisfaction of Britons who always thought the "English gentleman" manners of his predecessor, the late Robert Worth Bingham, somewhat pretentious. Joe Kennedy proceeded to go for a ride on a "rented horse," played golf (see p. 28), shook hands with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain...
...Editor Canby stepped down to the post of contributing editor. To his desk went aggressive, irascible, 39-year-old Bernard De Voto, who had been a lecturer at Harvard, editor of The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, a successful contributor to the Satevepost, Red Book, Collier's. Born in Ogden, Utah, the son of a Notre Dame mathematics teacher and a Mormon girl, Bernard De Voto entered the University of Utah at 17, helped organize a socialist society, left Utah in disgust when three faculty members were dismissed for unorthodox opinions. He went to Harvard, enlisted, was a lieutenant...
...speculators taking the hint tentatively bid up commodities and stocks. When the day of the event arrived, the press, 125 strong, trooped into the President's oval office; they found it rigged up, as one reporter murmured sotto voce, like a college course in Economics 2A. At his desk sat the President, jovial as ever. Behind him was an easel stacked with charts. 'Primly erect, like a visiting professor, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau sat at one side, flanked by James Roosevelt, Charles Michelson, Steve Early, Marvin Mclntyre and the usual Secret Service men. First part...