Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personal dislike" of Hughes by Major General Oliver Echols (wartime chief of Air Forces procurement) which blocked Hughes's efforts to speed building of the 200-ton "Hercules" and the XF-11 camera plane. And it was "Army hatred" of him, for his failures to kowtow to Army brass at Wright Field, said Hughes, that made him start spending for entertainment, as other airplane makers...
...ordered him to summon his gang. When the boys showed up, one by one, he started preaching. He called them cowards and coyotes, threatened to pin their ears back. The boys listened aghast. Soon, they were confessing their crimes. They led him to their hideout, turned over lead pipes, brass knuckles, revolvers. On the spot, Father Swartsfager organized the Gremlin Club ("I'll teach you to be real tough guys-mentally, physically and spiritually...
...even so all the wartime bigwigs would not hold onto their brass. Still in the process of weeding out the excess stars, the Army (including its air arm) last week had 500 generals on the rolls, the Navy 400 admirals...
Next week, in the salmon-pink Boite of Quitandinha, a hotel and onetime gambling casino in the cool mountains north of Rio, the top brass of hemispheric diplomacy will meet to put the Chapultepec agreement into permanent, postwar treaty form. Secretary of State George Marshall will be there; so will Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Warren Austin, U.S. representative to the U.N. and Texas Democrat Senator Tom Connally. President Truman might show...
Many of the tales are set in Washington, where the author spent part of the war in the OWI. They gleam with tarnished Army brass, crawl with Army wives as loose as granny knots. The Captain's Tiger will add little to Weidman's reputation, shows that even tough-guy fiction can be written to a formula as predictable as slick-paper romance...