Word: desks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With time out for a relaxed Thanksgiving Day, Harry Truman had worked hard all week cleaning up his desk. But at week's end, he turned out with the rest of official Washington to hear Margaret Truman sing with the National Symphony Orchestra. From the presidential box, her father beamed down as she sang Mozart's Dove Sono and Glazunov's La Primavera. She was called back for three encores, sang one-Smilin' Through-directly at her parents. "I wept," said proud Harry Truman unabashedly. "I almost tore up two programs in the excitement...
...Allies have told me that dismantling would be stopped only if I satisfy the Allied desire for security," he said. "Does the Socialist Party want dismantling to go on to the bitter end?" Amid rattling desk tops and cries of "Pfui!" gaunt, fiery-eyed Socialist Boss Kurt Schumacher called Adenauer a liar, shouted: "Chancellor of the Allies...
Thorns & Roses Vice President Alben Berkley celebrated his 72nd birthday while honeymooning in Sea Island, Ga. To well-wishers who phoned, the hotel desk clerk said that Barkley had left a message: "Barring the untimely death of the President or a declaration of war, not to be contacted, much less disturbed." Craig Rice, 41, popular whodunit writ er (Home Sweet Homicide), was committed as a chronic alcoholic to Camarillo State Hospital in California...
...talk about inflationary Government spending had grown so loud that even the Administration seemed to be taking note. Last week Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer was back at his desk in Washington after a swing around the country, in which he had dispensed thousands of soothing words into the ears of worried businessmen...
...logic sometimes goes astray, because teaching a young man to be an executive before his time can occasionally lead to trouble. "We often find a good bright boy, say from Middle-bury, more satisfactory," a company personnel man once reported. "These Harvard men walk in here and expect a desk twice as long as mine and with half a dozen push buttons...