Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Even amid the excitement of campaigning to become President of the U. S., Herbert Hoover found time to air his strong view about the inscription. Last week that view was overruled by a Belgian court. Piquant was the triumph of the new library's U. S. architect, potent and temperamental Whitney Warren, famed in Manhatten alike for his ability and for appearances at socialite functions in a blue silk shirt and bulging white scarf...
Proud and peculiar is Mr. Warren's concept of the roles of architect and client. He might have been speaking of any of his achievements when he said of the Library of Louvain : "As the architect and artist of the building I possess the right to insist that it shall be constructed as planned, and even after the completion of the building I have the right to insist that the structure shall remain as I built it!" Architect Warren planned to top the library with a heavy balustrade of floral pillars so shaped and intertwined as to spell...
...library neared completion potent U. S. pacifist groups, spokesmanned by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, finally persuaded Monsignor Ladeuze, Rector of Louvain University, that the Warren-Mercier inscription was "likely to breed hatred." Soon rector and architect openly quarrelled. Dramatically Monsignor Ladeuze brandished a cablegram beneath the slightly beaked patrician nose of Architect Warren...
...reporters Architect Warren wrathfully snorted: "The greater share of the money Mr. Hoover sent consisted of the residue of the Belgian Relief Fund, which by the will of the donors already belonged to the Belgian people...
Meanwhile Architect Warren had brought suit against the University of Louvain to force erection of his inscription and collect 2,000,000 francs damages ($55,600) for "violation of contract and artistic rights." The suit dragged on until last week. Then in Louvain a robed and bearded judge read out the verdict...