Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Governor Ritchie lay ill and disappointed in his fine old brick mansion in Annapolis, Eastern Shoremen proclaimed that they would like to ''trade Governors" with California. They loudly crowed that Governor Ritchie, who has aspirations of succeeding himself for the fourth time or running for the U. S. Senate next year, was politically dead. There was also some loud talk of secession from Maryland, to form a 49th State of the Eastern Shore and parts of Virginia and Delaware...
Architect Johnson appointed a corps of plumbing, heating, brick and carpentry inspectors who drew $75 per week from the city. Their official work was not heavy and he saw to it that they were men who could carry their election districts. With the aid of this political organization he was able to stave off efforts to cancel his contract in 1905, 1913, 1916, 1932, was even able to get contracts for other city jobs. When a hostile administration hired another architect to build a hospital unit, Johnson sued, made the city...
Continued investigation of buildings about Harvard, started when it was found that extensive repairs upon the Business School and Biological Building were necessary due to defective brick setting, has revealed serious flaws in many of the newer Houses and the new Wigglesworth Hall completed in the summer...
...Houses themselves it was found that around the round tops of some of the windows the wood has pulled away from the brick, and has there by necessitated a complete recaulking with plastic filler around the sashes at the top in order to prevent water and wind from coming in through the cracks...
Investigations have been under way to ascertain if these faults in the setting of the brick, and the floors may be laid to the contractors or to some defective materials which they used. So far, no conclusive evidence has been received which would in any way determine the cause of the present trouble. Whether it was undue economy, on the part of the University in an effort to construct the houses and other buildings as cheaply as possible or whether the Houses were a victim of the boom year construction so frequently found in work of that period when buildings...