Word: architects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forcing CWA workers to contribute to his political support, Lydia Cady Langer went out on the stump and campaigned to win her husband renomination (TIME, June 25). A frail woman with four children and little political experience, Mrs. Langer is the daughter of the late James Cleveland Cady, Manhattan architect who designed the Metropolitan Opera House. After her marriage 16 years ago in a Riverside Drive apartment, she went West with "Bill" Langer and left her New York ways and words forever behind her. When North Dakota's farmers heard her stump speeches they decided she was the right kind...
...offered $15,000 for a new base if the city would give $10,000. The city agreed. But an architect's committee argued so long that the time limit for the city appropriation was exceeded and the Pulitzers had to make up the $10,000 difference. Finally selected was a waterproof Italian marble from Trieste which would not crack or chip. But it cost $35,000. Once again the Brothers Pulitzer made up the $10,000 difference. In less than 20 years they had spent $45,000 of their own on their father's $50,000 statue...
...since Depression. Among the other 14 are the hotels operated by the Hotel Sherman Co. (the quiet Ambassador East, the gay Ambassador West, the sporty Sherman, the Fort Dearborn where railroad men like to stay), and the roomy, rambling Hotel Drake which has been operated since 1932 by its architect, Benjamin H. Marshall. Fortnight ago the president of Hotel Sherman Co., Ernest Lessing ("Ernie") Byfield, Chicago's best-known hotelkeeper, followed his four hotels into receivership, filed a personal petition in bankruptcy in Federal Court. Last week Architect-Manager Marshall of the Drake did likewise. Hotelman Byfield still...
Evelyn Nesbit was born 49 years ago in Tarentum, Pa. She got a chorus job in Floradora, became the mistress of Architect Stanford White. In 1905 she married rich, lecherous Harry Kendall Thaw, who already had a grudge against White. On June 25, 1906 Thaw and his wife attended a show on the roof of Madison Square Garden. There without warning Thaw shot White dead. At the trial the Thaw defense was temporary insanity ("a brain storm''). Acquitted of murder, Thaw was committed to an asylum for the criminally insane. He enjoyed enough freedom to begat a child...
Besides the Woolworth design, Mr. Gilbert's greatest-in-size was the huge George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River, for which he was consultant architect and which, against his wishes, was never encased in granite. Two Gilbert buildings were in construction at the moment of his death: the new $9,700,000 U. S. Supreme Court building in Washington (TIME, Oct. 24, 1932), a $10,700,000 Federal Court House for Manhattan...