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...returned to Harvard for his Ph.D. in 1902. Since then he has received degrees from Oxford (D. Litt.), Glasgow (LL.D.), and Cambridge (Litt.D.). He is a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur...
Vive le Général de Gaulle, ces officiers, ces soldats qui défendent la France dans le supréme honneur! Vive la France! Vive les bons Francais! Merci...
Last week German Army engineers removed the old car from a museum 75 yards away (built by Arthur Henry Fleming of California, who received the Légion d'Honneur for his beneficence) and rolled it down the track to the spot where Adolf Hitler wanted it for reasons of historical drama. Through the dusty windows the correspondents peered, saw Hitler sit down in the chair Foch had used, before a statue of the Marshal. At his right and left sat Göring and Keitel; at one end of the table Brauchitsch and Hess; at the other...
...went there two months ago to bear a second child.* The General's trip to Europe (his first) is supposedly as private and unofficial as his junket to the U. S. But since he has French ancestors and has been decorated with the Légion d'Honneur, he will probably be feted by the French Government...
...arrival of Dr. Armand Denjoy, Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur and honorary member of a dozen scientific societies, is attracting particular attention here because for six months mathematicians will be able to study the Denjoy theory of integration at first hand...