Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr. said: "All good things must come to an end. . . ." Erect and sad, he handed his beloved Third Army flag to his successor in command, Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott Jr., a General who had fought with his mouth closed. The band played Auld Lang Syne. Some 400 soldiers and WACs, also erect and sad, watched him march stiffly away...
...Washington, D.C., before the Advertising Club, he explained the sad state of U.S. diplomacy: "President McKinley [was] the last of a long line of great American diplomats." He told the admen that foreigners who had been ungrateful before ("Our allies never gave us credit . . .") would certainly have to do honor to the U.S. this time. Said he: "It will be impossible to explain away these victories as the victories of 1898 and 1918 were explained away, and there will never again-thank God-be a class of groveling, obsequious snobs, who will seek to be better than other Americans...
...Sad-eyed, hard-working Fred M. Vinson had a pleasant task to do this week. It was one that no other Treasury Secretary had done in 16 years-recommending a tax reduction. He told Congress that the Government could get along with $5 billion less revenue in 1946. That reduction was just about the total of tax collections in prewar years. By prewar standards, taxes would still be high (some $27.5 billion), but the Administration's program was good news all around...
...this situation there was only one thing for the Army to do. Sad-eyed General George Catlett Marshall, chief of staff, stepped up to explain. At the Library of Congress he faced 350 members of Congress, half a hundred G.I.s and WACs whom Alben Barkley, Senate majority leader, had told to come...
...opposite pole was Notre Dame, whose loud moans indicated that Irish luck had run thin. The year's top job-switchers, Coaches Ed McKeever (Notre Dame to Cornell) and Carl Snavely (Cornell to North Carolina) also sang a sad song-"Not this year"-but both managed to squeeze through their openers...