Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over his two daughters, flotsam of two relicts dead in childbed. There is an odor of more than sanctity about Mr. Chilvester's house. Yes, drains! First to notice it is not any inhabitant of the house but the Dean's nephew, young Christopher, who as an architect takes an interest in such things. He also takes an interest in naïve young Emily Chilvester, a more academic interest in Invalid Sister Lilian's mystical drawings...
Married. Helen Choate, 26, Manhattan poetess, socialite, granddaughter of the late U. S. Ambassador to England Joseph Hodges Choate; and Geoffrey Platt, 27, architect son of Architect Charles Adams Platt; in Manhattan...
...next recordable appearance is in 1920 as director of the Technical Alliance a loose organization for the discussion of social implications of the Machine Age. The late Charles Proteus Steinmetz and Thorstein Veblen were members. Other, living ones, are Stuart Chase, Frederick Lee Ackerman (Manhattan architect), Bassett Jones (Manhattan elevator engineer). They erroneously believed Howard Scott a doctor of science from the Technische Hochschule, at Charlottenburg, Germany. The interlocutions of the Technical Alliance languished. But Howard Scott, in Greenwich Village, prated and ratiocinated...
...Sirs: Architects everywhere will appreciate TIME'S description of the monument on Kill Devil Hill at Kitty Hawk, commemorating the first aeroplane flight; for TIME thoughtfully mentioned the architects-Rodgers and Poor (TIME, Nov. 28). Newspapers and magazines rarely give architects and sculptors credit for their creations, albeit painters invariably rate a good story with their names featured in every caption. Incidentally, gifted Architect Robert Perry Rodgers is brother of the late and famed Commander John Rodgers, U. S. N., D. S. M., pioneer in naval aeronautics, mine-removing hero of the North Sea Barrage, trans-pacific flyer...
...Interior Department President Hoover created an Assistant Secretary for Public Works to whom was to be transferred: 1) river & harbor development and flood control, from the War Department; 2) office of the Supervising Architect, from the Treasury; 3) Public roads, from the Department of Agriculture; 4) some half-dozen small independent building agencies...