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...Manhattan Rotary club, War Ace Edward Vernon Rickenbacker was introduced as a winner of the Distinguished Service Cross with nine palms, the Croix de Guerre with four palms, the Congressional Medal of Honor, the ribbon of the Legion of Honor. Snorted Ace Rickenbacker: "It is true that I could come here with a chest full of medals. But I do not wear the ribbons. ... I have no respect for decorations of that kind. I respect only the awards for peacetime service...
...businessmen get along so well with the Press as Edward Vernon Rickenbacker. Since his early days as an automobile racer, sports editors have been his friends and drinking companions. Home from the War, ace of U. S. aces, wearer of the Distinguished Service Cross, Congressional Medal of Honor, Croix de Guerre, Legion of Honor, he never affected the slightest conceit. As a high-powered executive first in the automobile business, later in commercial aviation, he continued his easygoing camaraderie with managing editors and callow cubs alike...
...officer and interpreter in the Allied forces, in which capacities he was sent by France on missions to the United States and Scandinavia. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre and is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor...
...more of a working instrument of government. Unless the Chamber of Deputies is willing to sacrifice its permanence of tenure in the interests of responsible government, there is grave danger that Doumergue will throw off the shackles of a dilatory Parliament and establish a military dictatorship supported by the Croix do Feu. The current cabinet difficulties make this assertion even more within the realm of possibility...
Marie van Houtte owes her life to a smart Spanish consul in Brussels who argued the Germans into sentencing her to life imprisonment instead of setting her before a firing squad. When Germany was beaten she went free and France gave her the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor. To perform her marriage last week up rose in the gorgeous robes of a Prince of the Church, Jean Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris...