Word: gladly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lady of the picture," I don't know, but the cabin that is used, is probably inhabited by the Hoag boys for hunting, as they own the property now and live on a ranch on the southern hillside. I know Mrs. Hoag will be glad to give you very full and authentic information on the old days, when six-mule teams used to wind their way down those cliffs from Monterey, bringing a load of houseguests for a gay weekend...
...Grover Whalen and Jimmy Walker, models of sartorial perfection though both were, had little in common. Whalen was an ambitious man but he had none of the Walker flair, and after two years Walker was glad to get rid of him. Since then Grover Whalen's talents have been devoted to private business and movements for civic improvement, chief of which was heading NRA's headquarters in Manhattan. Last year, he got an even bigger job: head promoter for New York City's World's Fair of 1939. Once more his tailored form was produced...
...Roosevelt appointee, specializes in fraudulent advertising. He once received a bitter complaint from an executive whose salary had been revealed in an FTC hearing. Replied Mr. Davis, cocking his head slyly: "My dear sir, if anybody paid me $90,000-and I really earned it-I would be glad to tell the whole world." William Augustiis Ayres, 70, now FTC chairman (the job rotates from year to year). A tall, slender, Wilsonian liberal who was on the House Naval Affairs Committee when Franklin Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Ayres was for years about the only leaf...
Ugly was the situation last spring when followers of St. Gandhi won the elections in six Indian provinces under the new Constitution, then refused to become cabinet ministers in the provinces where they had won (TIME, April 12 et ante). Last week His Majesty's Government were glad they had replied to this political boycott by Gandhi's Indian National Congress by simply sitting tight. It was the original contention of Sir Samuel Hoare, chief maker of India's new Constitution when he was Secretary of State for India (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935 et ante), that...
...held a golf club in his celebrated fingers. Asked how he had succeeded in Hollywood he answered: "I let the other guy's girl alone." Still amiable, he discussed the holdup: "I got into a jam when I was a wild young kid. . . . I'm glad it's over. I had intended going East and clearing this thing up anyway...