deskman

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To all the Archbishop had to say, that unhappy deskman could only gulp and stammer.

From Time Magazine Archive

TN February 1927, Reporter James Thurber quit his $40-a-week job on the New York Evening Post to start work as a $100-a-week deskman on Harold Wallace Ross's The New Yorker.

From Time Magazine Archive

Any deskman in the top-ranking E Ring of the Pentagon knows that a new Secretary should appear tongue-tied by military terminology, respectful of military uniform, and humble at the talk of potential military destruction.

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His network ruled not only that Roper and Day had been right about the differences, but that Murrow and the Manhattan deskman had been wrong.

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There his friend Corporal Macey subdued his broad Irish smile and ordered the deskman to "book him up."

From Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers by Franck, Harry Alverson