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...several months. His column was on taxes and prices. It began: "There appears to be no end to the lack of frankness and coordination among high government officials. ..." A few hours later, Death, as it must to all men, came to Old Ironpants. A caisson carried General Johnson to Arlington cemetery, where he was buried with full military honors. The newspapers did not say so, but he was buried with full civilian honors too. For, above all things, all Hugh Johnson ever asked of his country was a chance to serve...
Late in the week Foreign Minister Padilla took a drive along the Potomac, past Arlington Cemetery, and out to Mount Vernon. He asked a few questions, such as when the Japanese cherry blossoms would bloom, but was usually quiet, his expressive hands working as when he makes a speech. That night, at a dinner given him by Senator Tom Connally, Ezequiel Padilla said: "I toast the greatness of this American nation. . . . In human history never has any nation on the earth had a greater job than the United States has now. Nevertheless, in all the phases of this job shines...
...wrote a housewife in Arlington, Va. She had learned, as had thousands of other workers in the home, what U.S. industry is beginning to find out: that music on the job gets the job done better...
...Manhattan's Architectural League last week, Architect Lorimer Rich (designer of the Unknown Solidier monument at Arlington Cemetary) belatedly celebrated it with an exhibition of maps models and photographs. Architect Rich's exhibition showed what a beautiful job an unfettered planner can do with a city. It also showed that, in a fluid age of mechanical progress, cities must be planned, not like timeless monuments, but like elastic military campaigns...
Naval Academy appoints Joseph Francis Dolan of Arlington, living at home, was president of his high school debating club, and John James McCulloch, of Arlington and Mathews Hall, the West Point nominee, was valedictorian of the school, and captained the Yardling cross-country team...