Word: glads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glad-handing Louis Johnson was a big joiner; he became Exalted Ruler of the Elks, president of Rotary, national commander of the American Legion. In the Legion he first came to Franklin Roosevelt's notice by silencing a Legion outcry when Roosevelt cut veterans' pensions in 1933. After ex-Governor Harry Woodring of Kansas became Secretary of War in 1936, Roosevelt called fire-eating Louis Johnson in as his assistant, in charge of all procurement and industrial mobilization...
Tacho's fat-pig policy was paying off. For diehard Nicaraguan exiles, the legion's end meant that nothing short of a thunderbolt could now topple Tacho. Homesick and penniless, they had begun drifting back to make their peace with the porky dictator. He was glad to see them: "I want all Nicaraguans home. I like to have 'em close, so I can keep an eye on them, bless...
...best of my knowledge, all persons enrolled in my course have done so voluntarily. That being the case, I am afraid they will have to put up with what I have to say, even if they find it offensive or tinged with error. I shall, of course, be glad to hear from dissenters either after class or at a later time during my office hours. And I would like to assure the writer that if he can persuade me that I have sinned unduly in the direction of partisanship, I will be glad to make amends either privately or publicly...
...them at full flood for two days. Finally calmed down, Margaret read a new set of lines to the press like the trouper that she is: "I had hoped mother would wait until I am 14 and grown up. But since she wants to marry now, I'm glad it's Don. I like...
...year and a half ago, Harvey had a hunch. Nine years after he had thought up his simple little tune in Omar's Dome, he took it around to Bandleader Woody Herman. Woody didn't like it, and says Harvey, "I'm glad. If Woody hadda played it with all his noise, everybody might have missed it." He took it around to Supreme Records, a small company that was looking for what Harvey calls some "catchy novelties." A sweet-singing minor songbird named Paula Watson recorded it. When the big record makers heard it, they could hardly...