Word: aldriches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raise money for unemployed draughtsmen, New York architects have held progressive cocktail parties, poker games, exhibited their hobbies. Chicago architects held a studio ball with a nude young woman, at $1 a look, as one sideshow (TIME, Feb. 22 et seq.). Recently the decorous firm of Delano & Aldrich thought...
William Adams Delano and Chester Holmes Aldrich specialize in Georgian mansions and clubhouses, at present the most depressed branch of the depressed profession of architecture. The firm's draughtsmen must not only draw but make models for their exacting clients. That gave Partner Delano an idea. Just back from Paris where he had been supervising the erection of the new U. S. Government Building fronting the Place de la Concorde, he set his idle apprentices to work designing dolls' houses. Last week with the Christmas season approaching genuine Delano & Aldrich doll houses were on sale...
...house with a blue door arched with brick; a pink brick house with a shop on the ground floor, an apartment above. Each house is about two feet square, wired for electricity with a tiny fixture in the ceiling of each room. Encouraged by the success of these, Delano & Aldrich talents were bent last week on two new models: a larger business block with a restaurant and grocery on the ground floor, and an even larger Georgian mansion. Chief Draughtsman W. Bowman enthused: "It has a lovely staircase." These will sell at slightly higher prices...
Tall, handsome, dandyish David Graham Phillips was a man of mark in the days of four-inch collars and wicked "Interests." Even then his collars were higher, his crusading zeal hotter than most. Many a reader remembers well the fuss & fury roused by his expose of Senators DePew, Aldrich, Knox, Foraker, Platt et al. in a Cosmopolitan magazine series called "The Treason of the Senate." President Roosevelt, irked by this intrusion on what he considered his private hunting ground, first used his pet word "muckraker" in veiled denunciation of the author...
Engaged. John Davison Rockefeller III, 26, grandson of John Davison Rockefeller and of the late U. S. Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich of Rhode Island; and Blanchette Ferry Hooker, 22, Manhattan socialite, Vassar graduate...