Possible Clues:

• Flower arrangement in furniture shop to cover most of store
• Some like bananas in very special arrangement
• Arranging flowers like bananas? Not quite
• General to veto a Japanese occupation
• Prohibition circumvented by US president with a flower arrangement
• Flower arranging Eisenhower allowed at first around bar
• Japanese arrangements getting thumbs down among flatpack floggers
• Arrangement involving Rose from Tokyo?
• Overcoming veto, I parrot artistic arrangement
• Former general taking heart from fruit and flower arrangement ...