Word: desks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desk I have two letters to editors of New York papers which he wrote for me to use in approaching them for a job. At the time he went to great trouble to impress me with the fact that hundreds upon hundreds of reporters throughout the length and breadth of the countryside would give their eyeteeth to possess them. . . . And here was I, Destiny's tot, getting them for absolutely nothing. Before that evening was over they cost...
...letters he wrote for me have languished in my desk this while, as well as one I wrote to him to Ketchikan which was returned forthwith marked simply, "not here." I had about decided to put the episode away and to think no more about it, but your piece has stirred me and I felt I wanted to write...
...similar piece from a new angle for Review of Reviews. Editor Page asked when he could finish it. Pledge Brown answered that he was so full of his subject that he could write it in an hour if he could borrow a typewriter. Editor Page "gave him a desk and some copy paper and some cigarets. He went into a brief trance and then started typing at a furious rate. In about 45 minutes . . . he was done. . . and gave me ten or a dozen sheets of typescript. These I read quickly, finding to my surprise that he had done...
Glad to get back to Cleveland to do some creative showmanship, "Linc" Dickey finished up his blueprints for a Great Lakes Exposition early last winter, laid them on the desk of Cleveland's No. 1 philanthropist, Dudley Stuart Blossom. Enthusiastic Mr. Blossom promptly agreed to bear all development costs up to Jan. 1. By the end of January contributions ranging from $25 to $50,000 had underwritten the Exposition for $1,100,000. Setting up a nonprofit corporation, General Manager Dickey, General Chairman Blossom and 125 trustees went into action...
...After the War, he barnstormed for a while as a stunt flyer, later returned to steel in the blast-furnace department of Youngstown Sheet & Tube. After a few months he moved over to drive rivets for Standard Tank Car Co., shortly shot up to the production manager's desk...