Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Wellborn Root, 42, succeeded to the name and profession of his father who was chief architect of the Chicago World's Fair until his death in 1891. After Cornell and the Beaux-Arts, John Jr. won third prize in the competition for the Chicago Tribune Building. The firm was reorganized as Holabird & Root...
...York Chapter of American Institute of Architects used to award a gold medal at the Architectural League show. Since 1914 it has been awarded directly by the Chapter. This year it went to Dan Everett Waid, Manhattan architect, "for distinguished work and high professional standing...
...Charles Schuveldt Dewey (Yale 1904) changed his address from U. S. Treasury Dept., Washington, D. C., to Bank of Poland, Warsaw, Poland. Though he is called "American Financial Adviser to Poland," he and the U. S. disclaim all official connection. As Architect Albert Kahn, of Detroit, and Engineer Hugh Lincoln Cooper, of New York, hire out their expert services to the Soviet, so Economist Dewey puts his expert advice at the disposal of the Polish Treasury. It was he who was behind the recent deal by which Standard Steel Car Corp. underwrote $20,000,000 worth of Polish State Railways...
Edsel Ford, Board Chairman Roy Dikeman Chapin of Hudson Motor Car Co., and other Grosse Pointe, Mich, socialites (Buhls, Gardners, Geytmrns) have built a $500,000, 608-seat cinema theatre To the opening last week came Radioman Graham McNamee, Actress Elsie Ferguson, Actress Vivian Tobin. Name: "Punch & Judy Theatre," Architect: Robert 0. Derrick, who planned the Ford Museum at Dearborn. Admission on the opening night...
...Gill Robb Wilson of Trenton, N. J., onetime National Chaplain of the American Legion, the chapel's solemn purpose is to memorialize the U. S. military dead, particularly those of the aviation service. Under the auspices of the New Jersey American Legion, famed Philadelphia Architect Paul Phillipe Cret has prepared plans for a sturdy Norman-Gothic edifice with a steep-gabled carillon tower, suggesting the village churches of France. A minute side chapel, seating possibly a score, will have altar vessels of duralumin salvaged from the wreck of the Naval dirigible Shenandoah which soared away from Lakehurst and crumpled over...