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...York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey, leader in national GOPresidential polls since November 1942, got another bouquet. The Republican, official G.O.P. magazine, queried 3,500 State and county G.O.P. committeemen: "In general, do you agree with this leader's stand on foreign affairs?" From these professionals, Tom Dewey got the highest percentage of affirmative votes (48.3%), followed by Herbert Hoover (47.7%) and Wendell Willkie (41.4%). More than anything, the poll showed that G.O.P. committeemen considered men rather than issues. Almost all GOPresidential possibilities stand for some form of world organization; the practical committeemen voted most heavily...
Once Beebe came upon a noted gastronome glaring with horror at a row of orchids on his table. "Throw wide the windows!" cried the gourmet. "Air the rooms! Is the bouquet of my wines to have to conflict with these stinking flowers...
Bewildered Hudson men could only point to their record: An Army-Navy "E" in January; Navy praise in February for boosting production tenfold; cabled praise from General Eisenhower in May; another bouquet from the Navy only a month...
This week Secretary of State Cordell Hull, back from a rest in Hot Springs, Va., introduced his new Under Secretary to a press conference with a verbal bouquet. Smiling and with hands on the back of a chair in the familiar Hull manner, Ed Stettinius said: "This is the climax of my young career." The man who left a $100,000 headship of U.S. Steel to enter Government service, who was generally praised for his work as Lend-Lease Administrator (TIME, Oct. 4), now faced the toughest administrative job of his career. Largely in his hands was the direction...
...Wisconsin. In upping Wisconsin-born Leo Crowley as Washington's newest czar, the President threw him a whole bouquet. Said he: "Leo Crowley is one of the best administrators in or out of government and I find great satisfaction in promoting him to a position which will centralize all foreign economic operations in one operating agency...