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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Granite, Indiana limestone, Tennessee marble and other indigenous U. S. building materials began to be routed last week to a parklike strip between the Capitol and the Potomac which Washington calls The Mall. A contract had just been signed to erect a vast $6,000,000 colonnaded building for the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Were Andrew William Mellon more the Napoleon and less the patrician, he might, as he scanned Architect James A. Wetmore's plans, have thought: "This should be named the Mellon Building." For it was under him (though not because of him) that this department...
With a solemn flourish and a little very black ink His Majesty Vittorio Emanuele III last week signed away the Constitutional right of Italians to democratic government. This was the last act in a drama which began three years ago?a great drama for which Signor Mussolini supplied the livid theme...
With the approach of midyears at the University it is interesting to note that Harvard began her examinations for the first half term January 17. These will continue until February 2, the same day that University midyears...
...Moody began to take tennis lessons a year ago. He has not yet played against Miss Wills in public...
...remembered his dream, built the first wardrobe trunk. It looked much like the old style bulbous trunks, but in its interior were racks for hangers, thus embodying the essential principle of the modern trunk in which clothing is hung rather than folded. In 1898 he organized Innovation Trunk Co., began the manufacture of the original wardrobe trunk...