Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within the building the architect has devoted most painstaking care and study to provide the most complete and comprehensive facilities for the exacting and innumerable experiments necessary in the over widening field of Biological Research. Convenient laboratories of one, two, three, and four units have been furnished with every imaginable service. Constant temperature room, soundproof rooms, photographic rooms, dark rooms, cold rooms, mechanical shops, etc., ect., have been ideally planned and executed. Libraries, lecture rooms, and seminar rooms have been conveniently located on all floors, and, in addition to these, an auditorium in the central portion equipped with the latest...
...jury is composed of the Education Committee of the Society. On it Harvard was represented by J. J. Haffner, Nelson Robinson Professor of Architecture and Architect to the French Government...
Bringing to completion his climactic plan for ending Depression, the President announced appointment of Chicago's Charles Gates Dawes to be president of R. F. C. As expected, Eugene Meyer, the plan's reputed architect, took the post of chairman of the board (see p. 11). Banker Dawes, who had already resigned as Ambassador to Great Britain, resigned also as No. 1 U. S. delegate to the Geneva Arms Conference. To Geneva will go no less an official than Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson...
...deal in 1925 with the late James B. Duke; ergo he is in trade. Gulf Oil Corp. owns seagoing tankers; Mr. Mellon is a large stockholder in Gulf Oil; et go he is an owner of sea vessels. Under him the Treasury has issued a publication called The Federal Architect which recommends the use of more aluminum in the current public buildings program, thus drumming up trade for Aluminum Co. He has caused "millions" of dollars in taxes to be refunded to Aluminum Co. and Gulf Oil, "thousands" of dollars to himself. The Treasury literally labels his concerns "Mellon companies...
...Mansion on the East River, between 88th & 89th Streets, onetime country place of Clipper Ship Owner Archibald Gracie. A modern fireproof building was imperative. The city donated land, a building fund was raised, an architectural competition was held. The competition was won by dapper little Joseph Henry Freedlander, an architect high in Tammany favor, who designed the bronze Fifth Avenue traffic towers removed two and a half years ago as traffic obstructions, and the equally expensive curbside traffic lights which took their place, hopes to build a shrine to Washington Irving opposite the new museum...