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...mainland in nearly 14 years. It was the strangest soldier's homecoming in history. He was a General of the Army, stripped of his commands and without assignment, yet the U.S. was waiting to sweep him up in tumultuous greeting all the way to Manhattan's ticker-taped Broadway. His words had brought public dismissal and rebuke from his Commander in Chief, yet the Congress of the U.S. honored him by arranging a special joint meeting this week to hear them, and the entire nation would be listening...
This was just the warmup; the next day, a 65-motorcycle escort led his open car down the East River drive to Bowling Green, and then slowly up Broadway through showers of ticker tape to City Hall. Mayor Vincent Impellitteri, having given Auriol the city's Medal of Honor the night before, presented him with something called the Distinguished Service Scroll. Auriol gave the mayor the Order of Commander of the French Legion of Honor, and, despite a presidential cold, kissed him on both cheeks. "Do it again," shrieked the photographers...
...Ticker-Tape Appeasement...
More than being President of Argentina [which she will be some day, anyway) Eva Duarte Perón would ove to be officially invited and welcomed to the U.S. . . . [with] a White House formal dinner, a royal escort up Pennsylvania Avenue, a ticker-tape shower and parade along New York's Fifth Avenue. Here, whatever her other attributes, is a glamorous woman who could intrigue the men and dazzle the women...
...Commissioner John T. English, of East St. Louis, just across the Mississippi in Illinois, announced that he had a heart condition. Leo Dougherty, the Democratic boss of East St. Louis, checked into a Chicago hospital with "a coronary." Then Charles J. ("Kewpie") Rich, a big bookie, discovered that his ticker was acting...