Word: glads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Annapolis-educated Colonel Knerr (who transferred to the Army after three years of service as a naval officer) was saying what most officers of the Air Forces believed and were glad to hear. But his insistence became embarrassing. Finally Secretary of War Stimson listened to Navy's angry gripes. In October 1942 he publicly muzzled angry Critic Knerr...
...Evans graduated from Yale into the depression in 1931. He was glad to get a lowly clerk's job with the Mellon-controlled Gulf Oil Corp. But that was as far as the Mellon help went. With only some fatherly advice from Gulf's Board Chairman, W. L. Mellon, Tom Evans made his way alone. For six years he saved money, like an Alger hero; and played the stockmarket, unlike an Alger hero. Thus he collected $10,000. He wanted to find and buy a family-owned business that had gone to pot. In the down...
...Halifax one day last week, a tall, grey-eyed Scottish stranger called on Nova Scotia Premier A. Stirling MacMillan. The stranger announced that he was "glad to be home." He would, he said, like to buy part of Nova Scotia...
...solve the housing problem, Secretary Goddard hires out her boss and herself as husband & wife, butler & cook, to browbeaten, glad-eyed Ira Cromwell (Roland Young), who is trying to make a home for his baritone wife (Anne Revere), a major in the PLOPS.* Later the pair take servant jobs with New Dealer Ritchie, outwit a sneering rival toymaker, cop the contract and each other...
...Stout, glad-handed Park Commissioner John B. Vesey of Memphis, wanted his city to have 1) the largest zoo in the U.S., 2) an eye-catching art collection. With the zoo the Commissioner was doing splendidly. But last week his art boom had the mange. He had spent some $25,000 in good taxpayers' cash for "old masters." There were some 38 paintings, all from the collection of Warner S. McCall, retired St. Louis public-utilities developer, a man who was wont to tread on rare Tabriz rugs and drink from cut glass goblets said to have been fingered...