Word: desks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where it couples with the automobile. Inside, it is as compactly luxurious as the cabin of a small cruiser. A 14-footer may have three davenports which convert into beds, a stove, icebox, sink, large closets, table. A 20-footer may have two rooms, shower, chemical toilet, desk, chairs, breakfast nook. All sizes are neatly outfitted, with wood veneer on the walls, linoleum or rugs on the floor. All have running water, insulation, electric light, heat. Cost for factory-built models ranges from $400 to $1,200. The more expensive models this year are outselling the cheap ones three...
Technically there is only one vacancy on the Federal Reserve Board because Ralph Waldo Morrison's resignation still lies unaccepted on President Roosevelt's desk (TIME, June 1). The unoccupied seat, earmarked for a farmers' spokesman, has not been warmed since the new Board was appointed last January. Last week to fill this eight-year office the President sent to the Senate for confirmation the name of a man whose signature could be identified by at least 3,000,000 U. S. farmers-Chester Charles Davis, longtime AAAdministrator...
Last week RFChairman Jesse Holman Jones blew a choice railroad reorganization plan out of his office with one impatient blast only to find it again on his desk, with modifications, a few days later. This resilient scheme belonged to President Roosevelt's fifth cousin once removed, Philip James Roosevelt, a Manhattan banker who fortnight ago shocked a Senatorial subcommittee by declaring that his kinsman's government was thievish. As chairman of a bondholders' committee for Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R., Banker Roosevelt was trying to get his own reorganization plan approved rather than see the road devoured...
Another reporter on the job at the Gordonsville tragedy was United Pressman Levings Somers Willis. Of the sordid stuff he saw, says he: "I have in my desk a charred piece of jawbone of the man which was handed my wife by one of the crowd at the scene. I will gladly mail this to TIME. I personally saw both bodies raked from the ashes of the house, and saw pieces of skull and jawbone broken from the body of the man. Boys used the body of the woman as a football in the early morning hours. Slicing flesh...
...parade of visitors past his desk that fact was emphasized. He confabbed with Senator Wagner who will write his 1936 platform; with John L. Lewis, backer of Labor's Nonpartisan League to re-elect Roosevelt, Democratic Chairman Farley, Governors Davey of pivotal Ohio and McNutt of pivotal Indiana, with AAAd-ministrator Davis who lately returned from a trip to Europe to begin a grand tour of the farm states to bind farmers to the New Deal...