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...purpose. They conferred and dined at No. 10; they weekended with Winston Churchill in the country, where the cherry blossoms were coming out and spring green touched the trees; and the King & Queen had Sunday lunch with the visitors. Between frequent rests abed, frail Mr. Hopkins conferred with Lease-Lender W. Averell Harriman and the ministers-who counsel Churchill on Britain's policies and potentials. General Marshall passed many hours with keen, brisk General Sir Alan Francis...
...last week with President Roosevelt. That day and the next he conferred at length and stormily with Harry Hopkins, John Daniel Hertz (ex-Yellow Cab magnate and now with Army's Motor Transport Division), who is a friend of Kelly's, a father confessor to Hopkins; Federal Lender Jesse Jones, and other key insiders. What Mayor Kelly said was not reported in the press. It would have made big headlines if it had been...
...follow-up story came out in the New York Daily News. Not to be outdone, Correspondents John O'Donnell and Doris Fleeson printed a story which at week's end was still undenied by its principal-Federal Loan Administrator Jesse H. Jones. Lender Jones was reported present at a discussion of an alleged British Lend-Lease requisition for glasses of all kinds-sherry, port, brandy glasses. The order supposedly ended with a request for several drums of rum. Doubtless not bearing in mind Dunkirk, Libya, Crete and the R.A.F. every night over the Channel, Jones is supposed...
...eloquent, scarlet-faced swamplands slicker-both 100%ers. Big & little Democrats came in hordes, some humble like San Antonio's globular Maury Maverick (who came out saying "I didn't sit down-a small-time politician like me wouldn't dare"), some sardonic, like massive Federal Lender Jesse H. Jones, who lounged about, cracking hard Texas jokes, made no attempt to consult with the new Field Marshal of the Democratic Party...
...able, motor-wise Dr. George Jackson Mead of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics to standardize military engine models, up production by bringing as many plants as possible into a field now limited largely to two companies (Pratt & Whitney, division of United Aircraft; Curtiss-Wright); 2) Mr. Morgenthau, Federal Lender Jesse Jones, Tommy Corcoran, et al., in the roles of industrial advisers, were finagling for control...