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...extra lining, then, with thin-lipped determination, her dress. The vendeuse clucked her admiration of such courage. Deftly she inserted Madame into the model of the new gown. Expertly she arranged mirrors so that Madame could have a comprehensive look before grabbing her coat again. These were days for prompt decisions. Madame would take the gown? Bien...
...Upkins."* He was the same at home. Generals and civilians in the Pentagon swear that they could always tell when Hopkins was absent from the White House, on trips or because of illness, by the slowness with which papers and orders moved through. When he returned, there was a prompt flurry of activity. Lately, Hopkins' influence on Presidential appointments has been strongly felt?notably in the new State Department "team." But to people who insinuate that Hopkins forces the President's hand, his private reply is that they do not know Franklin Roosevelt's Dutch temper...
...heads; censorship, imposed by Generals Bradley and Hodges, was justified by the circumstances. Younger officers, however, conceded that if the public relations people had played fair and sensibly in the past, had not withheld news which had no real security angle, then in this crisis they could have got prompt cooperation...
Said the unofficial Army & Navy Journal last week: "Since D-day in France, greater preoccupation has been shown by Russia in her Baltic and Balkan campaigns and by Great Britain in Italy, Greece and Albania than in the prime objective of our armies-the prompt defeat of Germany. In the liberated countries there have been Communistic and British interference and clashing which affect military operations. ... It was expected from the attitude of Marshal Stalin a year ago that he would cooperate. . . . [Now] Communistic activities would indicate that no effective brake has been applied...
Cotton traders wanted proof that the plan would work, but like Dr. Claudius T. Murchison, head of the Cotton Textile Institute, and almost everyone else who had soberly pondered cotton's bleak future, they were prompt to endorse it in principle. At 22? a lb. the-U.S. cotton growers have priced themselves out of the world market, have come recklessly close to pricing themselves out of the domestic market. Government warehouses bulge with 6,500,000 bales of surplus cotton. And the price of rayon is now so close to that of cotton that many of the larger...