Word: architects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having thus obtained a potent voice in the naming of the two ranking officers in each Reserve Bank, Marriner Stoddard Eccles, the New Deal's chief banking architect, proposed to abolish the office of Reserve Bank chairman which, so far as the need for centralized control was concerned, was now wholly superfluous. On that point, however, Mr. Eccles had to give in to Congress. Last week Federal Reserve Board Chairman Eccles apparently set out to abolish the office anyhow...
...Jacques Bainville, a Royalist with a scoffing pen so sharp that he had been excommunicated by the Catholic Church, his corpse barred from burial in consecrated ground. The snout of Socialist Monnet's car incensed the mourning Royalists, three of whom, an insurance agent, a chauffeur and an architect, recognized Socialist Blum. The insurance agent shook his fist, the chauffeur spat on the glass window from which peered Leon Blum, and the architect set a glass-smashing example with his cane to other Royalists, who soon broke the car's lamps and windshield.* Someone tore off the rear...
Figure Skating is patterned on the ballet. To make sure their figures would fit perfectly the music which accompanied them, World Champion Pair Skaters Ernst Baier, 29-year-old Berlin architect, and Maxi Herber, his 16-year-old Munich protégée, last autumn had themselves photographed in action by a cinema camera, sent the film to a composer who devised a score to match their action. This painstaking process justified itself last week. The seven judges soberly awarded Skaters Herber & Baier first prize for a demonstration which supplied in finish whatever it lacked in spontaneity. Viennese Bandleader...
Finally it was decided that the ceiling, gilded, carved and painted at great expense, was too dark. So last week a white canvas frame was stretched over it. During the summer the ceiling will be repainted and by next autumn Architect Gilbert's son and successor may have produced a courtroom in which the New Deal's severest critics will feel more at home...
...firm of Cass Gilbert Inc. was John R. Rockart. In New York's Supreme Court last week he brought suit, claiming that during Cass Gilbert's lifetime he had an arrangement guaranteeing him "more than one-eighth" of the gross architectural commissions on which he worked. Since Architect Gilbert's death in May, 1934, John Rockart insists that he was in complete charge of the Supreme Court Building operations, hence deserves one-fourth of the profits on the building during Cass Gilbert's lifetime, three-quarters of the profits since...