Word: hap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold paid a call on Harry Truman, cocked a snappy hat over his eye, and went off to shoulder his responsibilities as the newly elected president of the California Fish & Game Commission (salary, none; expense allowance, $10 a day for not more than five days a month...
...Finletter Commission's prescription for a closer tie between the Government's military and civil air branches. Trained as a bomber pilot, he became a brigadier general at 36 (the Army's youngest). He got to be known as a "fair-haired boy" of General Hap Arnold, served as Assistant Chief of Air Staff, commanded a division of bombers in England, helped to plan and carry out the strategic bombings of Japan, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal...
Twenty-five thousand dollars spread out among some six thousand undergraduates is hardly a gigantic sum of cash. Independent, uncoordinated, hap-hazard drives for assorted charitable organizations quite probably could extract that much from the College without untoward effort. Yet the Student Council, acting as agent for a long list of such worthy agencies, has been able to garner just a bit more than half that amount, despite a two-month campaign that will end on Sunday. Usually, seven-dollar-per-man pledges were signed by the great majority of men at registration in the fall, the money collected...
...Lovett called him up and demanded: "For God's sake, Benny, don't we have a photo-reconnaissance plane?" Then Harry Hopkins called him to the White House, said that it was an outrage, and why didn't he get busy and get one? General "Hap" Arnold got a query from the President about the Hughes plane...
...committee hardly missed him. It had Elliott Roosevelt.† Seated before a standing-room-only crowd this week, he announced that he had fought against the orders which brought him back to the U.S., that he had never even heard of the XF-II until "Hap" Arnold put him on to it. As for Johnny Meyer's expense accounts, they were "very largely inaccurate"; he had not even been in the U.S. for several of the shindigs Meyer said he had attended. Said Roosevelt: "If it is true that for the price of entertainment I made recommendations which would...