Word: glads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally, in 1937, the Army retired him when he was 56 - officially, because of his partial deafness. Major Chennault told a friend: "I'm glad to get out [of the Air Corps]. They're still running it with the old 1917-18 ideas." That same year the dark, determined Louisianian went to Shanghai and became Chiang Kai-shek's air adviser. "Why," he had growled, "should I worry my brains out when I can prove my theories somewhere else?" In a few months, the Japs almost wiped out his infant air force, but Chennault did not regret...
...Averell Harriman succeeded Admiral Standley, Washington decided on a new deal, a whole new pack of cards to boot. Faymonville was relieved and reduced. Also relieved were Michela (reduced to Colonel) and Standley's former aide, Rear Admiral Jack Duncan. To Congress Cordell Hull proclaimed: "I am glad to say there is now in Moscow a highly competent U.S. Military Mission headed by Major General John R. Deane, [former secretary to the U.S. members of the Combined Chiefs of Staff]." Faymonville's job last week: temporary duty at the Texarkana Ordnance Center...
...these figures proved nothing else, they did indicate the terrific scale of the fighting and the losses on both sides. When the people of Moscow went into the streets on Nov. 7 to celebrate the 26th anniversary of the revolution, their hearts were glad with victory. But they were also heavy with sorrow. For few Russian families had not sacrificed lives to keep their country free...
...reporters, some armed with revolvers, to nose out back-alley stills, track down highjackers, and publicize ceiling violators. They seemed to find plenty to justify the American's screaming red headlines: highjackings running up to $100,000 a month, a wave of liquor-store holdups, petty racketeers glad to blab about Michigan farmers who "buy anything short of a hair rinse," bellhops getting $12-15 a Pint from hotel guests...
...brilliant." In the approach and scope of the project, military men see more than a thoughtful scheme for fitting Air Forces men and jobs smoothly together. They see what may be a preview of demobilization. If the Redistribution Center can ease men into new military jobs they are glad to get, it may set the pattern for the right return of millions to civilian life...