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...most of all he liked flying, and when in 1934 the Army adopted his pet project, a survey of Alaska (Mitchell: "Who controls Alaska controls the Pacific"), Hap Arnold led the survey flight. That flight won him the Mackay Trophy for the second time and put Hap Arnold near the top of the Air Corps, with the rank of brigadier general...
Before World War I he had set an altitude record (6,540 ft. in 1912), won the Mackay Trophy for the first use of wireless in military reconnaissance, became the first man to carry mail by air, and scared the pants off the wide-ranging horse cavalry of the day by flying 30 miles from College Park, Md. to Fort Meyer, Va. and back...
...Naval Radio School was then inaugurated and used Crufts Laboratory and Pierce Hall for classrooms. By the end of 1917 all of the University plant north of the Yard had been requisitioned and the men had overflowed into temporary barracks covering Cambridge Common. They used Memorial Hall, and Gordon MacKay Laboratory was built for their convenience...
...that menaced Dominion's status as an important and lonely zone. Even as the unified Command was dissolving, Australians complained that it had never been wholly unified or wholly effective. They took command of Australia for themselves, with their tough, hard-talking, fast-moving Lieut. General Sir Iven Mackay at the top. No sooner had they done so than the Jap appeared on the horizon...
...Junius Spencer Morgan, daughter-in-law of J. P., wrote Citizens' Song for the Citizens' Committee for the Army & Navy, whose vice chairman she is. The song was sung by oldtime Soprano Anna Case (widow of Clarence H. Mackay), with Fritz Kreisler at the piano, at a beefsteak party in a Manhattan brewery. Chorus...