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General Douglas MacArthur, before a banquet in his honor in Canberra, received the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Bath, Military Division, First Class-to which King George elevated him in 1943.* From Prime Minister John Curtin (soon to visit the U.S.) he got good wishes: "I trust that [General MacArthur] will live for many years to look back on the day he first arrived in this country for which he has done so much." Responded the soldier: "Two years ago when I landed on your soil I said to the people of the Philippines, whence...
Voronov became Marshal of Artillery, journeyed to the Kremlin to receive the platinum Order of Suvorov. At a crowded Kremlin banquet, Stalin toasted him with vodka. (A U.S. official took one look at Voronov, whispered: "What football team did he play...
...Louis' Coronado Hotel, the world's No. 1 producer of bomber turrets publicly embraced the theory that the best wartime safeguard of free enterprise is low profits. Said Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co.'s President and Board Chairman William Stuart Symington Ill, at a labor-management banquet...
N.A.M.'s second biggest news was much better publicized, much less puzzling, much less painful to those same ears. It came from the keynoter at N.A.M.'s usual $10 blue-plate windup banquet (grapefruit, mock turtle soup, roast turkey and cranberries, sherbet and petits fours-no butter), the man who makes policy for the world's biggest manufacturer: General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan...
...like Governor John C. Vivian, were cautiously "open-minded"; others, like shock-haired ex-Governor Ralph Carr, who had seconded Willkie's nomination in 1940, were hostile. Across the border in Wyoming, the reception was different: roly-poly Jim Griffith, State G.O.P. chairman, led the cheers at a banquet in the old Plains Hotel, where the crowd spilled out from the banquet hall into the hotel lobby and an adjoining drugstore...