Word: gladding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...began a frenetic attempt to stabilize things. He fired off telegrams to G.M.'s President Charles E. Wilson and to Henry Ford II asking them to suspend all price increases until he could talk things over with them. G.M. and Ford sent back like replies: they would be glad to meet with Valentine, but the boosts would stick. Said Wilson: "We find it impractical to accede to your sudden request . . ." Said Ford, in an obvious reference to the recent boost in steel prices, which Valentine had ignored: "We cannot accept out of hand proposals which appear to discriminate...
Radcliffe has had a tougher time with the CRIMSON. In 1947 it was glad to see the CRIMSON accept Radcliffe girls as correspondents--according to one student source, because "Radcliffe girls will be more sympathetic in writing the news." But the CRIMSON always presented the sour with the sweet, and one student complained, "We don't like to have all our business aired. Our interests are not their interests...
...letter goes to the successful candidates and the 'B' letter to the defeated candidates." Just elected governor of New York, Roosevelt was already patching and extending his fences. The bulk of the letters he wrote during the next few years show a man glad-handing his political allies, shrewdly holding the lid over his political boom lest it explode prematurely, and generally behaving the way a governor does when he wants to become President...
...Yard, on which the University had failed to place board walks in snowy weather, as "licensed highways to the Stillman Infirmary." Another one of his editorials had a prophetic ending: "There must be many among us who, whether or not of voting age, would be more than glad to gain knowledge by actual experience of the intricacies of federal, state, and municipal politics...
...revealing Winkler's appointment, the Government department spokesman declared that although the department was merely picking the best available man, it was "glad to give refuge" to one of the California dissenters. He asserted Winkler was "not a Communist...