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...come! said Jesse Jones. Well, there were the problems of negotiating contracts, bypassing patent disputes, figuring which synthetics were best. Senator Tom Connally, always eager to help a Texas chum, chimed' in: "Along with the baby they [NDAC] left all these other side issues and problems to be determined...
...Nazi spies; later he felt forced to use his forbidden talent once again, to save England. In the course of that adventure he had to talk to Hitler ("Heil you!" said Sam, "Heil me!" Adolf replied) and, before he could get any sensible action at home, to his old chum, the King. Said His Majesty, gratefully: " 'Well, what would Britain do without the common men and women of Yorkshire?' " " 'Ah don't know,' Sam said. 'But it'll be a sad day if they ever...
Lieut. Commander Robert Lovett became a banker, a partner in Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. So did his chum of Locust Valley, Yale and Dunkirk, Lieut. Commander Artemus Gates who became president of the New York Trust Co., a director of many corporations including TIME Inc. Early this year Franklin Roosevelt revived the post of Assistant Secretary of War for Air (it had lapsed under the New Deal) and named Bob Lovett to the job. Last week he moved again, appointed a new Assistant Secretary of Navy for Air-this time Artemus Gates. In 25 years the Yale Unit had flown...
Edward R. ("Big Ed") Stettinius was promoted to the post of Lend-Lease Administrator-which will still be supervised by Harry Hopkins. (Stettinius last week telephoned a chum happily, chortled: "I got the plum...
...were the Hon. Sir Alexander George Montagu Cadogan, Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a man whose refrigerated attitude somewhat resembles Mr. Welles's; Lord Cherwell, the Prime Minister's science adviser, recently knighted (June 12), a pioneer advocate of the balloon barrage, a vegetarian chum who constantly beats Churchill at Monopoly; Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's Minister of Supply; General Sir John Greer Dill, chief of the British Army's Imperial Staff; Sir Wilfrid Rhodes Freeman, Vice Chief of the Air Staff; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, First...