Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before Mr. Filene had become fully aware of the future possibilities of "talking liberally" about them. Had it not been for these pioneering crusaders, Massachusetts might never have had a Credit Union Law and Mr. Filene and his associates might not have had the cornerstone on which to build the National Credit Union Movement...
...Neill bought a 160-acre tract of land, planned to build a $40,000 Spanish Mission house into which he and his wife, one-time Actress Carlotta Monterey, who was born Carlotta Hill at nearby Monterey, Calif., hope to move next December...
...other in Jersey City for a gate of $1,789,000. Unpublicized co-promoter of that fight, with the late famed Tex Rickard. was a shrewd young ticket speculator from Manhattan's lower East Side named Michael Strauss Jacobs. After the Dempsey v. Carpentier fight, Jacobs helped Rickard build and run the new Madison Square Garden. Promoter Rickard died in 1929. In 1934, Ticket Speculator Jacobs became a prizefight promoter on his own account...
...Paris, which charges five francs entrance fee and contains two cafés, the Nizamiah Mosque-designed on Oriental lines by Sir Brumwell Thomas-will be the finest in any non-Moslem land. For U. S. Mohammedans there are two places for formal worship, a small, three-story frame building in Brooklyn and a temple in Michigan City, Ind., whose 80 Moslems plan to build a mosque when they acquire enough money. Elsewhere Moslems who cannot gather in large groups are content to worship in one another's homes. Singapore has the world's only mosque with...
...were the first Southern classrooms to hear about Evolution and modern geology. Armed with several millions more from the Vanderbilts and the General Education Board, Chancellor Kirkland replenished his faculty, secured in 1919 the General Education Board's then record single outlay ($4,000,000) to build a Medical School...