Word: desks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sitting at his cluttered desk in the cluttered expanse of the Star's city room, Roberts got General Eisenhower on the telephone in Washington. How did Ike feel about it now? Would he take a Democratic nomination? Roberts grinned around his cigar as the wire crackled with a string of cuss words. The General was angry. Hadn't he given his word? What kind of a fellow did they think...
...would make the decisions of the Kansas delegation at Philadelphia in June. Roberts, who has a reasonably tough hide, used to wince at reminders of his 1936 fiasco with Landon. Now, enjoying his role as a friendly enemy of Alf's, he pushed his belly back from his desk and nodded: "Fine. Fine...
...eight years (one of "the Senator's" friends needed a job). His great power is the Star. He can sit back, dictate an editorial or work up a story that will get the things done. Big Roy is the easiest man to see in town. To his desk every day come a steady stream of citizens to tell him their troubles and plans-everything from politics to church benefits. He always takes time to listen...
From the Communist People's World in San Francisco, the elusive rumor about Roper's "secret" poll on Wallace for Luce jumped across the desk of Walter Winchell, who reported that Mr. Luce's poll (he didn't say Roper did it) showed Wallace to have 15,000,000 votes. . . . From Mr. Winchell's Broadway column, the rumor fell back again into the Communist press . . . where it was reported that it was reliably reported that Roper had done the poll on Wallace for Luce, and when Luce saw the results he told Roper...
Housed in a desk-sized metal cabinet and operated by one observer, the machine records the various speech patterns of subjects being interviewed by prospective employers...