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Using six more pens, the President next signed an executive order designating a new 49-star national flag to become official on the Fourth of July. Design of the new flag: seven staggered rows of seven white stars set in a blue canton within the field of 13 alternate red and white stripes. Said the President as he signed: "Well, that is a historic thing." And at ceremony's end he noted to the special guests, Vice President Nixon, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. Alaska Senators-elect E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett, Ernest Gruening, Interior Secretary Fred A. Seaton...
...City, a Hoffa henchman, taking his cue from the boss, boldly announced that he was ready to organize the 24,000 members of the New York police department.* Said Teamster Henry Feinstein, 53, who holds down an $8,500-a-year city job as supervisor of transportation in Manhattan: Within a fortnight he would throw pickets around police headquarters, police depots and supply stations. Hoped-for result: fellow Teamsters would refuse to deliver police supplies, and-as Feinstein put it-Police Commissioner Stephen Kennedy (TIME, July 7) would "get a taste of Teamster economic force and pressure. The commissioner," said...
Aryan Businessman. The Nazis let him out again and, back in his old job, Joseph Joanovici became "a state within a state." His payroll included Vichy officials, Gestapo agents, profiteers, speculators, fences, gangsters. He once explained the niceties of his profession: "I had lunch with the Vichy official whose job it was to see that all businesses were run by Aryans. He noticed I spoke with an accent and asked me where I was born. I told him I would like to give him money regularly, as a contribution to the Red Cross...
...illicit profitmaking," Joanovici was sentenced to five years in prison and fined a staggering billion francs (roughly $3,000,000). After serving two years, he was let out but confined to the small southern city of Mende (pop. 7,700) in one of the most impoverished areas of France. Within months, Mende was a boom town. A telephone operator had to be hired whose sole job was handling Joanovici's calls to world capitals. His monthly phone bill ran to 600,000 francs; he spent 30,000 francs daily on entertaining; he contributed heavily to local sports and charities...
...London Sunday Express. Next morning Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma, walked into his office as First Sea Lord, waving the Sunday Express, beamed matter-of-factly: "The Beaver's attacking me again-I must be due for a promotion." Within 48 hours came the announcement: next July, when R.A.F. Marshal Sir William Dickson retires, Lord Mountbatten will become Chief of the Defense Staff, top military man over all Britain's services...