deskman
Example Sentences
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When a deskman suggested that defacing the flag might be illegal, the Colonel had him call the Tribune's attorneys, and stood by for their ruling.
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
Two years ago, William R. Moore, Associated Press deskman in New York, asked for a transfer to Korea, where he had served with U.S. occupation forces in 1946.
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But in small round-table sessions everywhere he went, wavy-haired L�pez Mateos, a deskman by training, has lined up the loyalty of political leaders who count.
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But new-comers pressed forward and kept trying to convince the deskman that he had rooms somewhere, rooms that he had forgotten, or was saving for people who would never arrive.
From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry
