Word: rolltop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this fight last week Vandenberg came in top form. The much-used bookcases in the unpretentious two-story brick-stucco house in Grand Rapids had been explored night after night; the rolltop desk in his little den had rattled steadily under the impact of his heavy-handed typing. That house holds all of Arthur Vandenberg's private life. There he moved the year (1906) he jumped from city-hall reporter to managing editor of the Grand Rapids Herald-the paper to which he came as a cub the same night in 1902 that Frank Knox also applied for work...
...Chicago the president's office of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R.-first among U. S. railroads in trackage operated (13,500 miles), fourth in revenue-is a severely handsome, blue-carpeted room overlooking Lake Michigan. It contains two desks, one flat and one rolltop, and last week no one sat at either. But hard at work next door, in the same cubbyhole he has occupied for 29 years, was beaknosed, grey-haired Edward J. (for nothing) Engel...
...associates) still works 70 hours a week. "We have a factory here for finding the truth," he says. It is a highceilinged, barnlike room in a remote corner of Teachers College, with a little office in the back where Dr. Thorndike sits in a high-backed chair at a rolltop desk. The factory is crammed to the ceiling with manila-wrapped bundles containing tests and data. Dr. Thorndike knows what is in every last one of them...
...never transact all their customers' business on a busy day. Four more are locked in a cashier's cage all day signing checks and certificates. Others buy and sell commodities. Curb shares. Those who do not have offices congregate in a great partners' room filled with rolltop desks. But even the oldest employe cannot remember all the partners meeting at once...
...Granite Falls, Minn. Andrew John Volstead received newshawks with his feet on a rolltop desk in his law office. "Anything I might say could do nobody any good," he said. "All it would do would be just to bring ridicule upon me. If I were to say that Prohibition had been a mistake, there would be an awful uproar...