Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman, speaking to the Legionnaires, had a message he wanted sensitive Britons to overhear: visiting British economists could expect "friendliness and helpfulness from the U.S." Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, onetime commander of the Legion, presented Mr. Truman with the Legion's Distinguished Service Medal, its highest award. Said Secretary Johnson: "In his simplicity, his humility, his charm, his humor, his devotion to his friends . . . our friend and fellow veteran Harry Truman never seems to change...
...gone Socialist; when it criticizes the Labor government, anti-Socialists in the U.S. cite the Economist as an authority to show that Socialism is no good. "From this dilemma there is only one escape," wrote the Economist, "and that is, for once, to give both sides of every medal...
...half of the page, the tongue-in-cheek Economist printed the side of the medal destined "for American readers-not to be read in Britain"; on the other side, the side "for British readers, not to be read in America." Excerpts...
Slattery's Hurricane (20th Century-Fox) pins a Hollywood medal on an unsung specialty of the armed forces, U.S. naval aviation's hurricane-tracking service off the Florida coast. But it is the same old celluloid medal-thin, transparent and chipped with wear...
Gifts for a Friend. Perón also wanted to give his guest the Order of the Liberator San Martin, but Bruce begged off. Ambassadors, he said, ought not to take medals from foreign governments. "The main thing I want from you," he said, "is your autographed photograph." At dinner he got it, a huge picture inscribed to "mi gran amigo." He also got a Peronista button for his lapel and a small "loyalty medal," an unofficial Peronista emblem which the President had previously given only to members of his household...