Word: architects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That Matthew O'Brien, a San Francisco architect who had been paid $64,000 for hospital plans never used, had been paid an additional $33,000 by order of an official in the Controller General's office, al- though the present officers of the Veterans' Bureau protested that O'Brien had already been overpaid...
...That Colonel Forbes employed Matthew O'Brien, an incompetent architect of San Francisco, to draw plans for a hospital; the plans were unusable, but O'Brien received $64,000 and is suing the Government for $13,000 more...
...HOPE OF HAPPINESS?Meredith Nicholson?Scribner ($2.00). Bruce Storrs, young architect, World War veteran, was faced with an extraordinary problem. His widowed mother, dying, confided to him that John Storrs had not been his father, and begged him, when he was left alone, to seek out and watch over his real father, Franklin Mills, the dominating " leading citizen" of a nearby city. He obeyed?and in what strange ways he came into contact with his father and his father's family?how he did his best to steady his jazz-bitten but charming half-sister Leila?how he fell...
...been associated with the School of Architecture for the past two years, has learned that the reconstruction of the city of Albert in the Department of the Somme, France, which he planned before leaving France has been practically completed after a delay of over two years. Professor Haffner became Architect of the city early in 1921 and drew up plans for its rearrangement and for schools and the city hall...
...200th anniversary year of the death of Christopher Wren, architect of St. Paul's Cathedral, Chelsea Hospital, Hampton Palace, London, was celebrated on Oct. 20 (Wren's birthday) at William and Mary College, Virginia. Wren designed the main building of the College-his only work in America. Cass Gilbert, distinguished architect of the Woolworth Building, made the principal address...