Word: building
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Come out flatly against overspending for veterans' emergency housing. (Allen's refusal to lend $32 million to the fledgling Lustron Corp. to build metal prefabricated houses precipitated the Administration battle that ended with the ousting of Housing Director Wilson Wyatt...
...Cohen team. Cohen, an idealist, is classified in what Washington calls the N.C.L.-non-Communist left. Byrnes likes to recall that he was an idealist once, himself. "In 1918 I was a follower of Woodrow Wilson. I gloried in his idealism and in the magnificent effort he made to build the peace upon the Covenant of the League of Nations." But a lot of branch water has gone into the bourbon since then. Jimmy may still have Wilsonian visions; certainly, he can still recognize and use the traditional U.S. political principles. But Jimmy, an intensely practical man, is leading...
...other kind of momentum. It skitters between monkeyshines and melodrama, dilutes the satire, overdoes the sex. But it remains, by Broadway standards, refreshingly unconventional. While giving little to Beggar's Holiday, The Beggar's Opera perhaps took something vital away-the chance to start from scratch, to build homogeneously from the ground...
Then came the ballroom business, based on the sound idea that 1) big cities are lonely places, and 2) the lonely men & women would .get together and dance if they did not have to patronize Chicago's scabrous dance halls. So the Karzas brothers decided to build them a dream palace, the $1,500,000 Trianon, a garish replica of the palace at Versailles. It opened in 1922 with the biggest charity ball Chicago has ever known...
...Trianon proved so profitable that the brothers laid out $1,750,000 in 1926 to build the Aragon, which features Spanish-style towers, arched balconies, and a deep blue ceiling in which stars twinkle and fleecy white clouds float around. Says Bill Karzas, who never had time to polish his English: "We think what people want, we appeal to the five senses. We give good music for ear, beautiful place for eye, fresh air for smell, good chairs for comfort, and special ice cream for taste...