Word: knights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philip Knight Wrigley, 48, who has voting control of 31.8% of the world's biggest chewing-gum works, fired himself from the presidency of his $64,000,000 company last week. His main reason was almost too simple: he thought it would be better for the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. of Chicago...
First Lieut. Jere Knight, from Pleasant Valley, Pa., widow of British-born Author Major Eric Knight and considered the handsomest WAC in London, averaged at least two dinner invitations an evening...
Polished Diamond. Eric Johnston may well be the White Knight of U.S. Business. His critics find him just a little too good to be true: too handsome, too smooth, too patently on the make. Like other goodwilling gospelers of "cooperation" he dodges-or does not see-fundamental differences of opinion. In a New York Times Hall debate last week between Johnston and U.A.W.-C.I.O.'s shrewd ideologue, Walter Reuther of Detroit, Reuther proposed that Government continue to regiment business and labor in peace as in war, by a Peace Production Board. Johnston, intent on his gospel of cooperation, failed...
General Douglas MacArthur, before a banquet in his honor in Canberra, received the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Bath, Military Division, First Class-to which King George elevated him in 1943.* From Prime Minister John Curtin (soon to visit the U.S.) he got good wishes: "I trust that [General MacArthur] will live for many years to look back on the day he first arrived in this country for which he has done so much." Responded the soldier: "Two years ago when I landed on your soil I said to the people of the Philippines, whence...
...Some other U.S. generals honored for their services in World War II: Dwight Eisenhower (also a K.C.B.), Ira Eaker (Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire), Mark Clark (Knight of the Order of the British Empire...