Word: desks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three days later, Florida's New Dealing Senator Claude Pepper shocked spectators and his colleagues with an irresponsible, low-blow attack on the National Association of Manufacturers' ex-Chairman Ira Mosher. Pounding the desk, Pepper roared: "It was the poor people whose sons went to the battlefields, and a lot of the manufacturers' sons who stayed home and got rich." Said Witness Mosher quietly: "Three of my family died in the war." *Replied Pepper feebly: "Then you are an exception...
...nearer settlement; it threatened, in fact, to spread across the nation. Despite the continued absence of newspapers, most portenos had heard-by word of mouth-all about the army's demand that Juan Peron keep his blonde wife out of public life. Evita was back at her desk in the Secretariat of Labor & Social Welfare. One night she appeared to accept the cheers of a Peronista union members' rally. But for once, she made no speech...
Secretary of State Byrnes spent more than half his 18 months in office traveling about the world. In George Marshall's 24 months as Secretary, he had been away from his desk more than 200 days. The new Secretary, Dean Acheson, wanted to keep his toothbrush and razor at home. Last week, at his urging, President Truman nominated Philip C. (for Caryl) Jessup, 52, to be the nation's first official ambassador-at-large,* and the nation's $25,000-a-year representative at diplomatic meetings at home and abroad...
...Kerr headquarters in Los Angeles show the marks of the partnership. The walls of the president's big office are covered with religious paintings. A well-thumbed Bible is always on the desk. Behind it last week Mrs. Ruth Kerr, 55, a widow with 13 grandchildren, started her 25th year as head of Alexander H. Kerr & Co. and its subsidiary, Kerr Glass Mfg. Co. (which sells the home-canning jars the parent company makes...
What redeems these diaries from sheer morbidness is Kafka's herculean determination to find health and purpose in his writing. Even when he thought of suicide, he drove himself to his desk. Writing "is my struggle for self-preservation ... Go on working regardless of everything." He went on working...