Word: desks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, though the leather folder on the President's desk fattened with candidates for Government jobs, there was a painful shortage of iron men with elephant hides. There was no stampede of qualified men for Royall's $15,000 job, or the $10,000 under secretaryship abandoned by William H. Draper. Navy Secretary John L. Sullivan ($15,000) and his Under Secretary W. John Kenney ($10,000) were thinking of leaving, too. There were two $15,000 openings on the Atomic Energy Commission (former Iowa editor W. W. Waymack had left, Physicist Robert Bacher had submitted...
...placed by "Tours of Enchantment," a travel agency operating out of rented desk space in a Long Beach (Calif.) airline ticket agency. "Tours" was mostly a mail drop and slight, soft-spoken Charlie Otterman, 37. For a mere $385 the tourists would be lapped in luxury aboard a slim, rakish yacht, served the "finest of foods . . . five times daily," and by night would dance beneath the golden Pacific moon...
...collapse now. First, the West offered important concessions strengthening the proposed central government's legislative and fiscal powers; this was designed to pacify the Socialists. The wires buzzed between Washington and U.S. officials in Germany. Next, the State Department's old Germany hand, Robert Murphy, left his desk at half a day's notice, flew to Germany. After days of conferences, Schumacher's Socialists finally let themselves be persuaded to accept the Western Powers' concessions...
...sunny day, I was handed my unconditional release, and my enervated neighbor mumbled an inarticulate farewell as I walked from the ward. I was then obsessed with the desire to learn the name of this modern Rip Van Winkle. I glanced at the chart on the head nurse's desk...
...unruffled. He greeted more acquaintances, had a friendly chat with Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft, and sampled a little bourbon & branch water. Then he headed for the office of Vice President Alben Barkley (who was traveling in the South), sat down at Barkley's desk and scribbled a note...