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...Kentucky. As wartime chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, he reveled in having generals at his beck & call. If a "warm friend" or a good constituent wanted a favor (perhaps a war contract, perhaps a son sent to O.C.S.), Andy would pick up a phone, summon the official to his office, and arrange it on the spot...
...continue in office, even though he was constitutionally barred from a second candidacy, and had not run in 1946. Others wanted the General Assembly to choose between the two highest general election write-in candidates: James V. Carmichael and Talmadge's son, Herman (pronounced Hummon to rhyme with summon). Still others tried to make a case for M. E. Thompson, Georgia's newly elected lieutenant governor. At week's end no way had been found of resolving the dilemma...
...First Lord knows whom to summon in such a scandalous and unBritish emergency. "You're ready for active service now, Hornblower?" "Yes, my Lord," replies gallant Commodore Sir Horatio Hornblower...
...lands she had conquered Russia had brought not only the sword but the salvage crew and empty freight train. These instruments of conquest, like the sword, could summon up bitter resistance. Russia's eagerness to grab industrial equipment might get in the way of her more important program of political expansion. And Russia, wolfing her conquests in eastern Europe and Manchuria, hungered for still more that was outside the boardinghouse reach of the Red Army...
Byrnes's forceful radio report to the U.S. people this week said that if that if the Four did not agree after their recess to summon the 21-nation peace conference by "July 1 or July 15," the U.S. would submit the whole question of the peace treaties to the 51 nations of the U.N. General Assembly. "We must take the offensive for peace," he added. "There is no iron curtain that the aggregate sentiments of mankind cannot penetrate." In this speech, and in his attitude at Paris, Byrnes ably and clearly demonstrated the Western Powers' determination...