Word: desks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attack on Newshawk Blish, fined $50 Scripps-Howard executives announced that the Indianapolis Times would pursue its investigation of local corruption further only if "reason for doing so exists." City Editor Harold La Polt, who had actively abetted the Powell crusade was was relegated to the copy desk. Handsome, dramatic-looking ex-editor Powell, who described the exodus as a "collusive divorce with satisfactory alimony," retired to the country, sail boats...
...School of Journalism. Talcott Powell, anxious to make his mark in the world, has kept a performance chart on himself ever since he was a cub reporter on the New York Sun. Graphing his status from year to year, he projected his curve upward to assistant on the city desk of the New York Herald Tribune, upward to the general managership of the Middletown (N. Y.) Times Herald, upward to the New York World-Telegram where he became an expert on municipal government and banking, conducted an expose of veterans' relief irregularities which helped that Scripps-Howard paper...
...over four hundred names have been signed in the booklets placed on the Langdell library reading desk and on the Austin Hall bulletin board for that purpose. Hemenway was permanently closed this year by John W. Lowes '20, financial vice-president of the University...
...must be tempered with reason, and a bit of advice offered in good faith should be accepted in good faith. When the meek assistant in Economics A or Government I barges into a basement room of the New Lecture Hall, slams the door, slaps his brief-case upon the desk, and whacks his hat on top of the brief-case, he does not produce the desired effect of exciting the admiration and awe of his class. Rather is the reaction one of perplexity at the uselessness of human effort, or, perhaps, sympathy for misguided well-meanings...
...Diego Exposition, after which he planned to go home by way of the Panama Canal on a cruiser. To put the best face on this reversal, the President left Hyde Park last week after a 22-day sojourn, sped to Washington for a four-day session of "desk work," calculated to keep him busy until the Legionaries cleared out of his westward...