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...have had the most contacts with the former Commanding Officer, will miss his kindly guidance and friendly manner. Discipline has had its place with him, but throughout there has remained the feeling of--well, if junior officers might so put it "he's just a swell fellow...
Well, chillun, we done got us a new "God". 'Matter of fact, we done got us a whole flock of swell new "Gods". Yesterday the names of Brother Pinet, Norton, Schuette and McIntyre were entered in the Good Book. Anyway may they lead us in righteousness through the paths of Heaven and Disbursing, with an everlastin' light from Baker Hall. Seriously, with Sherwood, Swanger, Custer, Smith, Williams, and Prussing on their "staff", we look forward to a semester of military leadership as fine as the "step-downers" have been, and with the benefit of much additional "doing...
...second method might be termed the red approach. To follow this path one must act boldly and expeditiously. First, corner the professor some time after the exam, preferably in his own office. Then invite him out for a drink, tell him what kind of a swell guy he is, and praise him for his teaching ability. And, incidentally, be sure to tell him what a fine fellow...
...record - Let's swell the file with nonsense...
...Swell Job, Mr. Smith." Even this brief sampling makes apparent one reason Mr. Smith and his Bureau rarely get into the papers. Most of their jobs are the unspectacular, long-range, beneficial sort which do not make news. For the Government as a whole is run a great deal better than the citizenry knows. Mistakes, hard names, quarrels make more headlines than peaceful progress. Any Congressman could make the front pages any day by standing up and calling Harold Smith a waster and a no-good. But when, at the end of his Appropriations Committee testimony, Alabama...