Word: desk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later the same 200 newshawks were back in the President's office where they found the stage all set for an extraordinary performance. At one side of his desk were stacked about 20 selected telegrams; at the other lay an open copy of the Supreme Court's decision. In the background sat Mrs. Roosevelt, knitting a blue sock. Another chair behind the President was reserved for Senate Majority Leader Joseph Robinson who arrived ten minutes after the show started. Circulating among the correspondents was Democratic Pressagent Charles Michelson, old, wise, grumpy...
Books charged to students should be returned by June 20th. Students remaining in Cambridge may arrange to continue their full Library privileges for the summer. Students desiring to take books out for the vacation period should make application at the Delivery Desk and in cases where there are duplicate copies which can be spared their request will be granted...
...saying, Franklin Roosevelt swung around to the desk above him where Vice President Garner and Speaker Byrns had sat in sphinxlike pomp and handed Speaker Byrns the vetoed Bonus Bill and the original of his speech. While applause rang through the House Speaker Byrns wrung the President's hand, congratulated...
...little soldier, forced police to hustle him to safety. It was a small but significant sample of France's current temper. Across the river in the Palais Bourbon porters were filling all the inkwells and placing a large brass dinner bell on the Speaker's desk, for the most powerful, least responsible legislative body in the world, the Chamber of Deputies, was about to meet. Every Frenchman knew what they were faced with: an immediate budget deficit of ten billion francs ($658,300,000), that was causing the French franc, keystone of Europe's gold bloc...
...election contest filed against him by Democrat Chavez. Fellow Progressives in the Senate, devoted to Senator Cutting, hotly resented the Administration's efforts to displace him through the Chavez candidacy and subsequent contest (TIME, May 20). This week, as Senator-Designate Chavez reached Vice President Garner's desk, after marching down the aisle to take his oath, the only Progressives present-Senators La Follette. Norris, Johnson, Nye and Shipstead-ostentatiously rose, stalked out of the chamber, returned when the ceremony was over...