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Oscar Cox, big, husky, wide-mouthed Treasury lawyer, with thick black hair framing a craggy Lincolnian face, who helped draft the Lend-Lease Act, will manage the enormous legal burden involved in British orders. Philip Young, son of General Electric's retired Owen D. (for nothing) Young, suave, polite, tweedy, pipe-puffing, also an ex-Treasury lawyer, will work with Cox, chubby J. C. Buckley, and blond, balding Alex Landgraf in planning, procuring, supervising production, shipment, whatever. These four, all 100% New Dealers, all young, tough-minded, aggressive, will be the Hopkins crew of odd-job men, sword-bearers...
...spectacled William McChesney Martin Jr., 34, who looks more like an apple-cheeked bumpkin than the $48,000-a-year president of the New York Stock Exchange, resigned his job, and last week joined the U.S. Army at $21 a month. Because willing service by the wealthy is good draft publicity, Manhattan's Selective Service publicity used the occasion to set off plenty of red fire. Mr. Martin cooperated. With $30 in his wallet ("I suppose I shouldn't have that much"), little more than a change of underwear in his zipper bag, he cheerfully suffered many...
...Cotton Ed" of South Carolina, is clerk of the Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee, whose chairman is old Cotton Ed. Young Mr. Smith, who has had the $3,900-a-year clerkship only eleven months, has been going to night classes at the National University Law School. When his draft number came up, he asked for deferment (to Class 2A) on the ground that he has a special employment status: he was indispensable to the Senate's Agriculture and Forestry Committee. Local Draft Board No. 8 made his request public...
...draft board's reply to this imposing intercession was that young Mr. Smith could be deferred to July (because he is a student) but no longer. Trumpeted old Cotton Ed, wroth at all the publicity: "Character assassins . . . unprincipled individuals . . . unprecedented for a draft board to lend itself to a murderous assault...
Last week, as the U.S. sped work on its Caribbean rampart, from Bermuda to British Guiana, the U.S. Navy was busy on further defenses to the Panama Canal. While the first U.S. draft of soldiers for the Lend-Lease base in Bermuda shoved off from Brooklyn, Rear Admiral Frank H. Sadler, commanding the Fifteenth (Canal Zone) Naval District, told newsmen of growing dumps of supplies and equipment at Balboa, the great naval base on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal...