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...efficiency and organization, a President and his staff need elbow room. Last week bids were received for enlarging the interior of the Stanford-White-designed executive offices. Low bidder ($15,225) was the N. P. Severin Co. of Chicago. The basement will be renovated as office and storage space. The West embankment will be cut away to the street to permit basement windows...
Last week he fractured presidential tradition by having a telephone placed at his elbow. All other Presidents had gone to an adjoining room to telephone, which they rarely did. Now President Hoover calls up his Cabinet members who respond with a brisk "Yes, Mr. President." By this method they are saved time-wasting journeys to the White House...
...General rose. A braided doorman solicitously took his elbow. "Blackjack" Pershing seemed about to faint. The commander of the A. E. F. brusquely brushed the doorman aside and stalked to the elevator, cock-robin once more...
...House Plan is to go further than that, it would seem advisable to have the two types of residents sit elbow to elbow in the dining hall. Equally discordant is the idea of a separate commons for the instructors. While the older men might well have a small, auxiliary smoking room for their special use, to establish an individual commons apart from the students spells defeat to any objective of bringing both types of men together in an informal, friendly fashion. Where there must be continued visiting back and forth between two common rooms, the line of least resistance...
...executive offices, the connecting link between all administrations since McKinley's is Clerk Rudolph Forster. President Hoover will never have to say "What do I do now?" because Clerk Forster, a slim gentleman with heavy spectacles and a solemn air, will be there at his elbow from the very first moment, anticipating, suggesting, directing, reminding, educating...