Word: glads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spoke rather openly of both to me, in return for some fairly patient listening to the Herr Doktor's story of his kidney trouble. At that time I was writing a novel that purported to be a microcosmic study of the world going fascist and I was glad to pay the price of a moderate amount of such listening for information on the technique of cultural penetration and on the proper use of the so-called setter people of a community in preparation tor the coming of the Nazis...
Veteran Tennist Jean Borotra, now Vichy's Sportführer, forbade "Hello, ma, I'm glad I won," and all other remarks into radio microphones by sports winners. His reason: they hurt the dignity of sport. . .Lumbering onetime Fisticuffer Primo Carnera, who tried cinemacting for a while, has taken up wrestling. . . A Pittsburgh judge gave Heavyweight Billy Conn a suspended sentence and a lecture for speeding and driving without a license. . .Corporal Hank Greenberg, ex-Tiger outfielder, was arrested for speeding at Fort Custer, prohibited from driving on the grounds for a month, put on K.P. . . . In Chicago...
...hours last week the Army had a lost battalion and 700 members of the 40th Infantry were glad there were no Germans around to make things worse. Even without that they agreed with Sherman...
...TIME is glad to know that Archbishop Beckman is no anti-Semite. TIME'S misapprehension (like that of many a Roman Catholic) arose from: 1) Archbishop Beckman's close association with his longtime good friend, Father Coughlin; 2) his use of the term "Christian-Americans," an anti-Semite favorite; 3) omission of Jews in his plea "to unite in the common cause of Americanism...
...inconvenience. The oil companies suggested the shutdown, and when Ickes accepted it. at once closed their own stations, asked their dealers to do likewise. In cities, most stations complied, figured it would solve labor shortage, cut expenses. Rural dealers, weary of 18-hour days at the pumps, were glad to hear of the edict, for the most part obeyed it. On New York's crowded parkways, State police gave emergency aid to stalled motorists: a gallon to light cars, two to heavier ones. Trucks and taxicabs were supplied, as provided in the plan...