Word: architects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work on the subject for the Tercentennial celebration in 1936, Samuel E. Morison '08, professor of History, has been selected for chairman. The other two members of the committee are Kenneth B. Murdock '16, dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Charles A. Coolidge '81, architect of the new Houses...
...Alexander the import of the message was unmistakable, and he insisted on examining Pharos. He found the situation most favorable, and to the infinite exasperation of his architects and engineers, he commanded that the original plans be abandoned, that new be drawn and executed for the island. "Homer," remarked the Emperor Alexander smugly, was a "very good architect, besides his other excellencies." There is more to the story, very dryly told by Plutarch. This morning at eleven Professor Jackson will lecture on Homer from a point of view somewhat more aesthetic than that of the militarist, Alexander...
...Ditchling filled at once with outsize women come to show Brangwyn British hips. Last week Painter Brangwyn, 65, and ill but still full of emphasis, was finishing the fourth of four murals for Manhattan's Rockefeller Center RCA building, on Man's Relationship to Society. He and Architect Raymond Hood had affably agreed last winter on a composition showing Christ's Sermon on the Mount to symbolize Man and Religion. The Rockefeller Center art committee, including Director Herbert E. Winlock of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, suggested diffidently that it might not be "fitting...
...Building lobby where Brangwyn's mural will go was blank last week because Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera had refused to paint Nicolai Lenin out of his great panel. The story blathered across Manhattan's front pages that "Rockefeller Center Bars Jesus From Mural." Quietly Architect Hood said, "Whatever Brangwyn does-even if he presents the actual figure of Christ-will probably be accepted...
...Cabinet. He put in a customs house man, Jose Barquin, as Secretary of the Treasury; an obscure doctor, Antonio Guiteras, as Secretary of the Interior; the son of the famed discoverer of the yellow fever mosquito, Dr. Carlos J. Finlay as Secretary of Sanitation and Public Instruction; a rich architect and engineer, Eduardo J. Chibas, who was a de Cespedes man, as Secretary of Public Works. Meanwhile last week the rest of the hash was still boiling...