Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building, Roberts testified. At the time he was a private citizen in the public-relations business, held no state or party office, although he had recently resigned as Republican state chairman, and had long been a power in Kansas politics. The price had been approved by the state architect, and Roberts felt it was a good buy for the state. He had talked to members of the State Social Welfare Board (which supervises the state hospitals), and had asked only one legislator for information. Said he: "I was scrupulous in making no lobby approach to the legislators...
...Hampshire's Styles Bridges let it be known that the withdrawal of Bohlen's name had been urged on "top" Eisenhower aides. "We had an election," said Bridges, "and the Acheson-Truman policies were repudiated. [Bohlen] is an architect and part of the team determining those policies. I don't see why we should send such a man to one of the most delicate spots in the world. We should have a man in whom we, including the Congress, have complete confidence...
...biggest sculpture contest ever held. The stakes: $32,000 in prizes, offered by an anonymous donor for a monument honoring The Unknown Political Prisoner (TIME, Feb. 9). When the experts were finished, the $12,670 grand prize went to Britain's Reg Butler, 39, a shaggy-haired architect turned sculptor who made his first real splash at last summer's Venice Biennale...
Wrote Holmes: "I have no respect for the passion for equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy . . . If I am to consider contributions they vary infinitely-all that any man contributes is giving a direction to force. The architect does it on a larger scale than the bricklayer who only sees that a brick is laid level. I know no a priori reason why he should not have a greater reward. Kant did it on a larger scale than the architect . . . Some kind of despotism is at the bottom of the seeking for change. I don't care...
Sign to the Public. In 1950, Jacqueline Leonhard won another victory. The citizens of New Orleans became so enthusiastic about her ideas that they elected two like-minded members to serve with her. Thereupon the board made Mrs. Leonhard its first woman president, hired Architect Charles Colbert of Tulane University to head a whole new program of construction. In 1952, the city completed the revolution by electing two more pro-Leonhard members...