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...Canadian Air Marshal William A. ("Billy") Bishop's son, Arthur, 18, enlisted in the R.C.A.F. // Robert Hopkins, 20, son of Harry Hopkins by his first wife, volunteered for a year's Army service, with the O.K. of both his divorced parents. // Millionaire Private Paul Mellon waived his automatic release as a married man of 34. // Youngest son John Roosevelt graduated from Harvard's Navy Supply School, was assigned to San Diego's Naval Air Station as assistant supply officer. // Captain Elliott Roosevelt was ordered to Kelly Field for a course in aerial navigation...
...city plan that the War Department was trying to upset was not the plan that Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant presented to President Washington in 1791, but it was still based on that celebrated original. For actually getting today's Washington built, Andrew Mellon was as responsible as any man. As Secretary of the Treasury he fostered the famed Triangle Development, 50 acres of marmoreal bureaucracy between Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues, in the city's most congested quarter. Following many of the suggestions of the McMillan Commission, which revitalized neoclassic Washington in 1902 and revived the basic...
...Roosevelt Administration has kept undeviatingly to the Mellon-sponsored plan. By 1936 L'Enfant's Mall was finished, though the Major's Gallic eyes would have popped at the huge neo-Grecian temples battlementing its northern length. Business houses, even churches near certain Federal areas now conform to the plan...
...Department was somewhat taken aback to find how deeply Washington is attached to its L'Enfant-Mellon plan. Senators rumbled. The President wrote an admonishing letter. The press said: You can't do that. Someone suggested that the Department move to the 550-acre grounds of the Soldiers' Home in north Washington. It began to look as though the War Department had raised a potent ghost...
London gave its whoppingest luncheon reception of the war to Commentator Raymond Gram Swing, visiting lion of the hour. Cost: about $2,000. Among those present: 18 cabinet members. Rare gastronomical tributes: chicken, fresh asparagus, white wine, aged French brandy. ∙∙ Aluminum Multimillionaire Paul Mellon, 34, son of the late Andrew W. Mellon, volunteered for Army service to beat draft deferment because of his age, asked assignment to the cavalry. ∙∙ Ex-Ambassador Joe Kennedy's son, Joe Jr., 25, reported for Navy training as a flying cadet at Squantum, Mass, ∙∙ John T. Dorrance...