Word: desks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...July 1934 the St. Louis Post-Dispatch relieved its liberal chief editorial writer, Clark McAdams, of his writing job, kicked him upstairs to the executive desk of an associate editor. The following year Clark McAdams died. Many a friend of his believes that Editorialist McAdams' death was hastened by his sorrow, in the face of Franklin Roosevelt's promises and policies, at the more & more conservative editorial stand of the Post-Dispatch which has been called "an American Manchester Guardian." Last September, the Post-Dispatch jumped the political fence outright, joined the majority of the nation...
Last week from the offices of the Post-Dispatch leaked the story of a unique post-Election gesture to Clark McAdams' memory. When the Presidential returns were all in, tall, grey-haired 0. K. Bovard rose from his desk on the open floor of the Post-Dispatch city room, slowly stalked into the editorial room where Mr. Mc-Adams used to write, chalked on its bulletin board a succinct message...
Revered in the frugal offices of James Talcott, Inc. at No. 225 Fourth Avenue, in the heart of Manhattan's mercantile district, is the old desk of the Connecticut Yankee who founded the famed factoring firm in 1854. On the desk is a richly-bound volume of letters written on the occasion of the firm's 80th anniversary by the nation's great. Visitors are allowed to thumb through the volume and, if themselves distinguished, are occasionally invited to sit in the Founder's own chair. Generations of dead Talcotts gaze from their portraits...
...entirely. Sometimes Talcott will merely assume the credit risk without advancing cash, receiving a fee for this service. The firm factors about 400 concerns, makes a point of assigning two officers with the authority to make decisions to each account, insisting that at least one always be at his desk. Most of the clients are small companies, unknown to the general public, unable to duplicate for themselves the facilities and experience offered by James Talcott...
REED Kennedy sang in the Cornell University glee club. Since he preferred singing to anything else, he considered himself unfortunate in inheriting two coal companies in Pittsburgh. For seven years he sat behind the president's desk and sold coal, all the while frequently thinking back to the days when he sang over radio with a college trio. When his two brothers grew old enough to handle the coal business, Kennedy started humbly over KDKA in Pittsburgh, sang in a church choir...