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...World War I, where he picked up seven decorations, including the Congressional Medal. The Law & Politics. After the war he poked around China and Siberia, came home to work profitably at corporation law, less profitably at Republican politics. He helped mastermind the Hoover campaign, but the attorney-generalship plum fell to William D. Mitchell. Donovan ran for governor of New York, but the year was 1932, so the winner was Democrat Herbert Lehman...
...Last week this postwar prerogative got off to a pedestrian start when Major General Edward P. King Jr. led off with five articles (for NANA) about his internment in Jap prison camps. A faster-talking general, in a press interview, had already stolen General King's newsiest plum: that King's superior (and prison roommate), General Jonathan M. Wainwright, was twice knocked down by Jap guards...
...British oil company. An agent for Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. promptly signed up. As such a concession might involve the U.S. in just the kind of international complications the Emperor wanted, the State Department forbade Standard to take it up. But Ethiopian oil rights still looked like a plum...
...quarter. He had just answered the critics of his financial manipulations (TIME, June 25). He had denied his father had ever "promoted or assisted" his private affairs, branded such a charge as "a deliberate, infamous lie." To the new charge that he had helped T.W.A. get a choice postwar plum- a charge trumpeted on the floor of Congress by Michigan's Paul Shafer...
Postwar Prize. This exchange of accusations focused attention on a juicy plum that may soon be ripe for picking...