Word: gladly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week President Hoover kept his regular appointment with the Press. As correspondents encircled his desk, there was talk but no quotable news. Next morning, however, most metropolitan newspapers in the land ran almost identical front-page stories from Washington. It was the kind of dispatch President Hoover was glad to see in print, though nowhere was he personally mentioned. Knowing readers suspected White House inspiration, under the Hoover system of supplying correspondents with "background" which they are not privileged to attribute directly to the President. The gist of the story was as follows...
...course I am glad . . . but I am worried about him. I know just how much such a tournament takes out of Francis. . . . He has gained 18 pounds in the last year...
...placed on sale at Hearst publication offices. A few banks handled the stock, but only as agents, not underwriters. Of these 2,000,000 shares, only some 775,000 or $19,395,000 worth had been sold by May 20, 1931, a fact which made many an investment banker glad he did not underwrite the whole $50,000,000 issue...
...That put Miss Roche's Rocky Mountain into a bad competitive hole. It was to help her out that her employes volunteered to take half pay. It was not a voluntary wage cut; the unpaid half is only postponed 90 days. But as a helpful gesture it caused glad Miss Roche to exclaim: "Just another example of their splendid cooperation! We are fighting for such tremendous things. We not only can but we must maintain wages...
...where the inhabitants lit fires on the lake shore to frighten away bears. Next day the Lindberghs flew the last 50 miles to Nemuro. From the balcony of the Nibiki Ryokan, where their beds had awaited them for four nights, Col. Lindbergh addressed the cheering populace. "We are glad to be in Nemuro," said...