Word: desks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enter Senators. President Roosevelt had scarcely returned to his desk from his vacation when he was waited upon by a depressed delegation led by four Cotton Senators-Georgia's George, South Carolina's Smith and Byrnes, Alabama's Bankhead. Gloomily they told the President that unless the New Deal does something new, different and soon for cotton, the South will suffer its worst economic 'blow since the Civil War. They then sketched Cotton's woeful case history...
...Hoover, Mr. Smith and New York Life's President Buckner lined up behind President Buckner's desk for three-cornered handshaking photographs. There was a moment's hush, broken when Mr. Hoover leaned over to President Buckner, volunteered in a sepulchral whisper: "I have shrunken an inch...
...reservations desk in a Chicago hotel bustled a woman and two men. From the clerk they reserved three seats on the Transcontinental & Western Air plane for New York, bustled away again. Hour later they were back to ask: "Is that the 'Lindbergh Line'?" Told that it was, they indignantly canceled their reservations. Asked TWA's Chicago manager: "Who were they?" Replied the hotel clerk: "Mrs. Bruno Richard Hauptmann and two lawyers...
...Crawford Biggs re-signed last month after many New Dealers had decided that he was not making the best of the Administration's defense (TIME. March 25). Mr. Reed, taking office, understood well enough that he was expected to do better. But he was hardly settled at his desk last week before he was obliged to announce a strategic retreat...
...Brain Truster last year told the Senators who confirmed his appointment as Undersecretary of Agriculture that he got mud on his boots (when vacationing on his father's fruit farm in upstate New York), his job in life has been not in the fields but at a desk. By the same token his prime enthusiasms do not spring from the sight of an unusually good stand of wheat but rather from the contemplation of an unusual, bold, far-reaching economic idea. Last week he had extraordinary scope for such ideas, for he was about to carry out the land...