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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough others to help him carry on opera at woodsy Ravinia, and the Chicago Symphony in trouble with the Musicians' Union, that was what threatened. The Chicago Friends of Music organized ambitiously last winter to raise $100,000 for an outdoor Temple of Music to be built near the Fair grounds (TIME, Dec. 26). Some $25,000 was raised. The Temple idea was abandoned and the $25,000 set aside for concerts to be given in the Auditorium on Wabash Ave. Last week the Chicago Friends manfully started their World's Fair concert season. Soprano Claire Dux, wife...
...Braille. Last week when 5,000 members from many lands met in Boston for the annual meeting of the Mother Church, of most interest to them was the new, nearly completed Christian Science publishing house, a $4,000,000 edifice for which 47 Back Bay structures were razed. Built of limestone, heavily classical in design, like some sort of government building, it is to be a showplace like the adjacent, domed Mother Church. Last week Publishing Society officials were pleased to announce that no more contributions would be needed after July. The Monitor is already being partly printed...
Died. Joseph James Tynan, 61, vice president of Bethlehem Steel Corp. and of Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.; of heart failure; in San Francisco, Calif. For Great Britain during the War he built ten submarines in five months, the 12,000-ton war craft Invincible in 29 working days...
...Chicago fire was roaring down on his Tremont House, John Burroughs Drake rushed out and bought another hotel, taking a chance that it would be saved. It was. John Drake lived to build a conservative business reputation and a hotel fortune which he left to his two sons. They built the Blackstone which became the most famed hotel west of the Alleghenies and the Drake which was probably their undoing. For last year Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. foreclosed on the Blackstone and last April started proceedings to foreclose on the Drake. Last week old John Drake's sons Tracy...
...London. Potter Palmer took little part in his beauteous wife's gyrations, often slipped away from levees to spend an evening with his cronies. His mile of State Street real estate grew vastly more important than the hotel. The present Palmer House, a leading commercial hotel, was built in 1925 by the second generation of Palmers...