Word: desks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year is the one in which Congress adjourns. Franklin Roosevelt sensed that last week was the week. The fumes of adjournment, like the fragrance of a steaming cup of coffee, ascended into his nostrils, and he was the essense of amiability as he kept business shuttling over his desk in anticipation of the pleasurable moment when the cup would touch his lips, when the first session of his second Congress would pass into history, having given him virtually everything he asked, denied him nothing important save the World Court...
...telegraph key to open the new Cummings Highway over Tennessee's Lookout Mountain, "Doc" Smithers, White House telegrapher, went into the President's office to see whether everything was in order. It was not. The wastebasket had broken the telegraph wire. Hastily "Doc" Smithers crawled under the desk, held the broken ends of the wires together while the President, grinning, pressed...
Sergeant Jurney decided to beat one more covert before quitting for the day. The motorcade drove back to Washington to the Hotel Shoreham to ask Bernard B. Robinson, Hopson's "Washington representative", whether he knew where his boss was. At the desk of the Shoreham whom should Mr. Jurney bump into but beefy, bad-tempered Chairman John J. O'Connor of the House Rules Committee, who captured "Pimpernel" Hopson fortnight...
...absorbing Austria as a later move to ''restore the Universality of Rome!" In the general rush to enlist now sweeping Italy's languid, aristocratic youth even the Dictator's baby-faced son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, last week planned to quit his peculiarly vital desk-job as Minister of Press & Propaganda to become a flying...
...outer office, Noble Puffer entrenched himself. He cut off Mr. Aken's telephone. When Mr. Aken's secretary left her desk, he popped his own secretary into her seat. Finally he took out what records had not been carried into the inner office, shortly announced that in eight months Mr. Aken had used up all but $69.50 of the year's appropriation for extra office help...