Word: desks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said returned U. S. Charge d'Affaires Eric C. Wendelin, back from bloody Madrid last week to a desk job in the State Department: "The citizens of Madrid pride themselves on doing 'business as usual' even during air raids and attacks. Before I left about one-third of Madrid had been destroyed. The crescendo of artillery fire never let up. The rumble of guns shattered our sleep-but we got used to it. In Madrid you get accustomed to almost everything...
...Hetty Green, once the world's richest woman-the penny-pinching "Witch of Wall Street" who used to shuttle between Brooklyn and Hoboken to avoid establishing residence and paying taxes while she was making millions in the stockmarket. Hetty conducted her affairs from any desk she chose in Manhattan's old Chemical National Bank, often ate a lunch of sliced Spanish onions while sitting on the bank's floor at noon. When she died in 1916 at 81 she had increased tenfold, to $67,000,000, the fortune founded by her New England whaling and ship-owning...
This woke up that lion-hearted lawyer, President Jose Antonio de Aguirre y Lecube of the Basques. If a devout Catholic and a communist fanatic could be rolled into one, the result might approximate President de Aguirre. He keeps a tall ebony-&-gold crucifix on his desk but pounds this piece of furniture with voluble class-conscious vim remindful at times of Father Coughlin. As the offensive of General Mola was just getting under way, Basque de Aguirre went on the air with an impassioned broadcast...
...became known last week, the Pope gave audience to Aurelio Mistruzzi, Papal engraver and sculptor who fashioned the Golden Rose to be given this week to Italy's Queen Elena (TIME, March 15). According to Signer Mistruzzi, the hale Holy Father pointed to papers on his desk and said: "We have written a long letter which is most important and we are writing another which is equally important. When they are published the world will know a sick man could not have written them. When we write letters like this [pointing] we must feel well." The two letters...
Paula Echols, 15, was in an English class with 20 other students when she saw the building shake and the roof fall in. Then Paula saw her teacher's leg protruding from a rumbling pile of brick and mortar. Pinned beneath her desk, Paula heard the boy across the aisle screaming for help. Another boy dragged her out through the window-frame...