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Behind the Siena front in Italy, he decorated the U.S. Fifth Army's Lieut. General Mark Clark with the sunburst plaque of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor. De Gaulle's point: he was the Frenchman entitled to confer French honors...
Recently several generals flew thousands of miles around the world just to confer a half day with him. They wanted to launch an offensive, needed Lutes to tell them how soon it could be done. Lutes had the answers ready in a few hours. The generals flew off. Before their plane left the ground, General Lutes's well-oiled supply machine was busy on the battle to come...
...will happen to the state insurance commissions which now collect $100,000,000 annually in fees from insurance companies? In his lone dissent, Justice Stone gave a gloomy answer: Said he: "The practical effect ... is to withdraw from the states, in large measure, the regulation of insurance and to confer it on the national government-which has ... no scheme of regulation." This will loose "a flood of litigation and legislation, state and national...
...President gave a hint of this last week at his press conference. A correspondent, remembering Mr. Roosevelt's plan to confer with Winston Churchill "about" every three months, asked if he hoped to see the Prime Minister soon. Oh yes, the President replied, he hoped to, either in summer-or autumn-or late spring. "What about winter?" the correspondent asked. Fianklin Roosevelt replied that he did not like the North lantic in winter...
...propped at an insouciant angle, striding merrily and importantly through the Senate at the noontime opening of a session. He gives a backslap here, a glad hand there, pausing to drop a witticism at this Senator's desk, an encouraging word of counsel at another's, to confer now gravely, now casually -dynamic, carefree, yet occasionally sober under the solemn responsibilities of statesmanship. Here, it seems from the gallery, is the very picture of a wise and charming legislator, beloved of his colleagues, happily resuming his daily burden...