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...correspondents are greeted by a cordial captain in a brand-new, cheerful reception room. Army cars whisk them to interviews in the War Department's 20 outlying buildings. When brass hats refuse interviews, General Richardson gets the refusal rescinded. "They might push a Brigadier General around," say his well-pleased subalterns, "but not a Major General...
...like the flyblown crocks who were once Brooklyn's most predictable annual ornament, were fixing to lick the Giants, the draft (see p. 51), and all baseball attendance records, brash, red-haired Flatbush Boss Larry ("Barnum") MacPhail welcomed another boss to the Dodgers' Havana training ground, shook cordial hands with brash, black-haired Cuban President Fulgencio Batista...
...Marked a definite swing to the Right, with a promise of more cordial relations with...
...Marine, Air Minister, Minister of Education. In 1938 he proclaimed himself "Premier for life." But unlike the Axis dictators, he fomented no wars, rarely made speeches, indulged in no pageantry, maintained no sycophants to shout his praises. He sought friendship with all his Balkan neighbors and cemented a cordial entente with Greece's traditional enemy, Turkey. He was a hardheaded, hardworking, unpretentious administrator in shell-rimmed spectacles who rested his claim to authority on the fact that he got things done...
Life in Iceland the soldiers reported, was not cordial. When a British expeditionary force took over Iceland at the time of the Nazi invasion of Norway, their reception by the natives was anything but warm. The Icelanders so resented the British that soldiers had to go out in parties of three, well-armed and on their guard against stabbings and shootings. When the soldiers bought eggs, they had to pay $1.20 a dozen, and then the Icelandic grocers had to be watched as they would put only ten in the bag. Icelandic diet was narrow. Mutton appeared in nearly every...