Word: gladding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glad to be advised of your views," Representative Velde, Chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, replied tersely, after having received a copy of the stand...
...Louis, the court of appeals upheld the sentence for misconduct in office imposed last year on James P. Finnegan, 52, erstwhile U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue in St. Louis and glad-handed pal of Harry Truman's. Finnegan's mistake: accepting fees from private companies for his services in two cases involving the Government while he was a federal employee. His sentence: $10,000 fine, two years in prison...
...British feared an Egyptian stab in the back, British tanks battered down the gates of Abdin Palace and forced King Farouk to accept Nahas Pasha as Premier. That evening a 24-year-old Egyptian captain, attached to the British at El Alamein, wrote his brother: "I am glad for this incident. This cut of the knife has given life back to our young officers...
...York City, who was drafted two years ago, and whose father [now dead] had fled from Hitler's Germany to New York. He faced a battery of cameras with dull, bloodshot eyes, then ducked into the reception tent. Once there, he said stolidly: "I'm glad it came true...
National Distillers Products Corp. bought Italian Swiss in 1942 as a hedge against wartime restrictions on whisky. But, after the war, the U.S. wine market turned sour, and has stayed that way ever since. Accordingly, National was glad to sell...