Word: desks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once, when someone asked whether his religion ever interfered with his banking, Sanders exploded: "Christianity isn't worth a tinker's toot if it won't work! The place to find out if Christianity works is at your desk. I apply it to life as I live...
...office at Sacramento one day last week, he sat like a defensive halfback behind his sleek, cork-covered desk. Up to the desk came California's Republican Chairman Arthur W. Carlson. In his hands, Carlson carried a framed copy of a resolution, neatly hand-lettered, adopted by the Republican state committee. The resolution asked Earl Warren's permission to line up a Republican convention delegation...
...Governor's desk lay a letter prepared in advance. It was addressed to Chairman Carlson. Earl Warren picked up the letter and read aloud: "I shall be proud...
...last week, wrote Columnist Billy Rose, "a daffy story popped up on my desk" (the kidney-shaped one in the office Flo Ziegfeld used to use). It seemed, wrote Rose, that somebody's spinster Aunt Helen had died, and when the minister drew back the casket lid at the funeral, what should be inside but the uniformed corpse of a two-star general? The embarrassed undertaker said they might as well go ahead with the service. Aunt Helen had apparently been buried in Arlington Cemetery that morning, and only an act of Congress could...
This week's hot tip from Walter Winchell: "The most inflammable stuff on Toscanini (and Lily P. and André K.) is resting quietly on a publisher's desk. It is a book tagged: The Other Side of the Record. Too Gee-Whiz for the printed page." Actually, the book was resting quietly at most bookstores; it had been published in October and widely reviewed (TIME...