Word: desks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down beside President Roosevelt's desk last week sat Arthur Ernest Morgan, teacherish head of Tennessee Valley Authority, to arrange an exchange of personal favors. Dr. Morgan just wanted to be sure that the President would not stand for the constrictive changes which the House Military Affairs Committee made in his TV Amendments. Mr. Roosevelt just wanted to ask whether Dr. Morgan would take care of 18-year-old Son John Roosevelt for the summer, give him an unpaid job doing TVA "field surveys." They had no disagreement about obliging each other...
...Saturday noon with the Labor Disputes Bill on his desk awaiting signature, the President was comfortably sure that he had the U. S. Labor situation well in hand, when in rushed Secretary Marvin McIntyre. The Press, declared Mr. McIntyre, was clamoring for a Presidential statement on the strike to begin Monday morning. What strike? asked the President. Why, the soft coal strike, said the Secretary. Oh, was there going to be a coal strike? The President had not heard of it. It had been postponed to July 1 when he had promised to press for passage of the Guffey Coal...
...James's, seemed the frailest of frail reeds on whom President Roosevelt had elected to lean. Subsequently, the President's husky envoy to the Irish Free State collapsed and died, while Ambassador Bingham has bloomed until his health now permits him to be often at his Embassy desk, with a secretary now & then invited to continue to work with him while they munch lunch. Last week there was definitely sunshine in the U. S. Embassy and it burgeoned with what London called "Georgia Peaches...
Last Sunday morning Investigator Rabell drove over from his home in Pelham, N. Y. to the Jones estate in Scarsdale. Dressed in white linen, the smart, baldish accountant was led into the Jones study, which was fairly crawling with microphones and dictaphones-under the desk, under the couch, in the portiéres, behind the radiators and pictures, in the radio cabinet. Upstairs two court stenographers recorded every word, and a platoon of lawyers and officials listened in. Mr. Jones was particularly pleased that SECounsel Burns was on hand...
...Roosevelt's financial ear in those first dazzling days, changed sides at the London Economic Conference in 1933, has since devoted his energies to a liberal and enlightened presentation of the case against the New Deal. Thanking his directors for tolerating his long and frequent absences from his desk at No. 40 Wall St.. Jimmy Warburg handed in his resignation last week, insisting that he should no longer be paid for his extracurricular activities. He will continue as a director, representing the Warburg family's heavy holdings in Bank of the Manhattan...