Word: desks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inclined to think I hold a world's record. On my desk at this moment is a little book. It contains the date, where played, with whom played, number of holes and score from my first match game, June 14, 1902, to my last, June 24, 1934-total of holes played...
...deal larger than the Record's, the paper loses over $500,000 a year, has cost Publisher Annenberg an estimated $2,000,000 since he bought it from the estate of wine-bibbing, fun-loving James Elverson in 1936. Subexecutives have hung little red tags on the copy desk lamps reading "Please turn off when not in use," but Moe Annenberg remains munificent. He spends some $25,000 a week on promotion, recently had to be argued out of cutting the paper's price to 2? (all Philadelphia papers went from 2? to 3? last year). When some...
...spoils system for most State offices. ("It has been said many times that under such conditions I have felt the need for spiritual wisdom. If there ever was a case where I could say this, this was one.") When the civil-service wrecker landed on the Governor's desk he said: "I have faith the right answer [whether to sign] will be made clear to me, perhaps this weekend." Mr. Dickinson and Mentor Boyles passed the weekend together. The bill was signed...
...Claire, Wis., Oil-burner Salesman W. B. West, arrested for speeding, could not pay the $20 bail bond. He got the money by persuading the desk sergeant to make a $20 down payment on an oil-burner...
...sits down at his desk before 8:30, tall and impassive, and with slim spatulate fingers runs through his mail. During the morning he drops in at the engineering building, where 460 engineers and draftsmen are at work, to peer at blueprints and drawings. Sometimes he goes through the plant, where 6,000 mechanics turn out his ships in a method as nearly resembling straight-line production as fee aircraft industry has yet approximated. But Glenn Martin does not tinker with airplanes any more. He tells other people what he wants. When he returns to his office...