Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minute he had, the bosses of all parties, sniffing the winds of power, put on brass-knuckle fights to pick their candidates. Democrats, with a handsome candidate handed them on a platter, roiled and boiled for weeks before they finally chose him: Brooklyn's District Attorney William O'Dwyer, onetime cop, hod carrier, onetime student for the priesthood, an ex-brigadier general, and the man who broke up Brooklyn's Murder...
...Some brass hats have squawked at Mauldin's lampooning, which he freely admits is sometimes "seditious." Some brass hats complained that Willie and Joe did the U.S. Army no credit. Well known by now is the story of General George Patton threatening to have Stars & Stripes banned from his Third Army as long as Mauldin's unkempt heroes appeared in it. Patton and Mauldin were told by Eisenhower's headquarters to discuss the matter. Said Mauldin after the conference: "I came out with all my hide on." Stars & Stripes continued to circulate in the Third Army...
...Front (it is a Book-of-the-Month Club choice) and Ladies' Home Journal paid him $10,000 for the rights to publish Ladies'-Home-Journalized. excerpts. He won the Pulitzer Prize for 1944's best cartoon. In Italy last week, at a ceremony crowded with brass hats, Bill Mauldin was presented with the Legion of Merit...
Nice is strictly for G.I.s. Visiting brass hats were warned they might get informal treatment. General "Hap" Arnold, boss of the Air Forces, got it. Inspecting the town after recuperating from an attack of pneumonia, he walked past a happy G.I. Said the soldier, sticking out a friendly hand: "Name's Brown." Said the General, extending his own: "Mine's Arnold...
...Line. In Albany, the New York State Office of Civilian Protection, anticipating the complete disbanding of 22,000 auxiliary firemen, barred them from further rides on fire engines and slides on stationhouse brass poles...