Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rumors: Postmaster Harry S. New to go into a business venture; Labor Secretary James J. Davis to build up Moosehart, school of the Order of Moose, Illinois, or to run for Governor of Pennsylvania; Interior Secretary Hubert Work (described by Carter Field, New York Herald- Tribune correspondent, as "reluctantly persuaded to remain") to private affairs in Colorado; War Secretary John W. Weeks to enjoy life...
There is available for a memorial in his home town to Warren Gamaliel Harding, 29th President of the U. S., $800,000. Last week, it was decided to reserve $100,000 for landscape gardening, $100,000 for an endowed upkeep and to proceed at once to build with the balance. The design will be selected by Andrew W. Mellon, John W. Weeks, Charles M. Schwab. Mr. Mellon is an art collector, has Rembrandts and Cazins in his Washington apartment. Mr. Weeks and Mr. Schwab are not known to be extensive collectors...
...Dearborn announcement, five or six of these planes will be ready this year, and the great Ford organization expects to sell them, without difficulty, on behalf of the Stout Co. The Liberty motor is now getting out of date and, according to the same announcement, the Ford plant will build new and more powerful motors to replace...
...trip across the Atlantic, visited Detroit, Henry Ford invited him to bring the huge ship to Detroit. "We'd have no place to tie up. We'd have to have a tower of some kind to tie up to," said Dr. Eckener. "Well, I'll build you one," said Henry Ford. And he is now building a huge mooring tower-the largest and most developed of its kind...
...pointing out the lack of proper build: It pointing out the jack of proper building facilities, Dean Pound shows that although the attendance at the Law School has increased by about 300 men daring the past four years, no corresponding increase in lecture and reading rooms has been made. At present there are eight lecture rooms available, one of which must soon be converted into a library. "In the two principal lecture rooms in Langdell Hall", he says, "and the three principal lecture rooms in Austin Hall, the capacity indicated is to he had only by crowding in extra chairs...