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Although he had come to sign no pacts and to transact no formal business, St. Laurent had many matters to talk over. Uppermost in his mind was the North Atlantic defense pact (see INTERNATIONAL), which Canada keenly desires...
Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick is no man to let others transact his important business. When Publisher McCormick decided to go to Tokyo, politicos guessed that General Douglas MacArthur was to be measured for a presidential toga. The Colonel kept in close touch with his Chicago Tribune readers, as usual...
...there was more business to transact on the tight, if pleasurable, schedule mapped out by U.S. Ambassador William D. Pawley. Addressing the joint session of the Brazilian Congress, the President recalled Brazil's contribution in bases, materials, and men in World War II, brought down the house when he said simply and directly: "And I'm here to say that we don't forget our friends when they have been friends in need." That night, there was a formal state dinner at Itamarati Palace. Over champagne, Truman cordially invited Dutra and his family to visit...
...back from France with orders for postwar wines and promises of better food. The sacrosanct smoking room had a new carpet, its lackeys new black uniforms with green lapel pipings. A new room was open where M.P.s-who sometimes have had to dictate to secretaries on hall benches-could transact their business. Even the mace, symbol of authority, had been regilded...
Finally someone remembered that there was state business to transact. Calling the Council together for an open-air session, Horace Hildreth had a hunting knife at his hip. To call the meeting to order he rapped on a tree stump with...