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...London he had been known as "Mr. Hurry 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...
First to sport the new five-star insigne, on the flag of his flagship* last fortnight, was Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. It consisted of a cluster of five stars set so as to form a pentagon, a symbolism which could scarcely escape the witty attention of junior officers on duty far from Washington. By last week, other signs of the new top rank for U.S. officers appeared...
...Bremerton speech (TIME, Aug. 21), was a political address, and forthwith granted a Socialist Party request for equal radio time to speak to the soldiers overseas. Six hours later the War Department reversed the decision, in a statement that sounded as if heads had rolled all over the Pentagon Building. On thinking it over, the Department now held that the President's broadcast was a "nonpolitical report...
West Pointer Tompkins was picked in May 1943 to head the planning unit. Under him is a staff of 22. In his office in the Pentagon Building, bound between pasteboard covers, filed away in desk drawers are the blueprints for the machinery needed to demobilize the greatest Army in the nation's history. Within the past month, conferences have followed one another so rapidly that Tompkins' work basket and the baskets of his staff now are chockablock with nothing but demobilization reports...
Lutes's office in the Pentagon Building would be an imposing background even for a trumpet-voiced, four-star general. Lutes, with his two stars and barely audible voice, mumbles: "I didn't want the damn thing. They built it for Admiral King and when the Navy decided not to move into the Pentagon Building I fell heir...