Word: cass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...build a suitable home for the Supreme Court, which for nearly 70 years had been meeting in dusty discomfort in the original Senate chamber in the Capitol. Chairman of the building committee was Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who easily persuaded his fellow members to appoint white-haired, dignified Cass Gilbert as architect...
...appointees, six will carry the title of Assistant Medical Adviser. They are Dr. John William Cass, Jr., Assistant in Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Ph.D., Boston College '25, M>D. '27, Assistant in Medicine at the Medical School; Dr. Clark Wright Heath '22, M.D. '26, Instructor in Medicine at the Medical School; Dr. Jackson Mash Thomas, Assistant in Psychiatry, Medical School; Dr. Kenneth James Tillotson, Instructor in Psychiatry, Medical School; Dr. Vernon Phillips Williams '24, Assistant psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital...
...great Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C., and Robert Aitken's pediment for the west portico of the brand new Supreme Court Building in Washington, into which Sculptor Aitken put the faces of Chief Justice Hughes, William Howard Taft, John Marshall (as a boy), Architect Cass Gilbert and himself. The brothers' business boomed. The red brick house grew to a 20-room catacomb of high-ceilinged workshops, spare of furniture, full of great lumps of stone, clay, plaster. One piece, a huge statue of James Monroe, ordered and paid for by a Venezuelan President...
...Cass Gilbert completed and President Wilson formally opened his most famed structure, the 792-ft. Woolworth Building, still sixth tallest in Manhattan. To critics who objected to the building's Gothic decorations and demanded a "new" style in ornaments, Cass Gilbert gave a reply which described his traditional, assured attitude toward architecture: "New schools of design come, with intervals of centuries between, by slow evolution, and can no more be created out of whole cloth than new social orders or systems of government. The problem of this great shaft cried aloud for some form of Gothic treatment...
Death, as it must to all men, came last week to Cass Gilbert, 74, architect, in Brockenhurst, England. Had not a sudden heart attack laid him low in a bedroom of pleasant, rambling Balmer Lawn Hotel, he, his wife and daughter would have left in two days for Southampton and the U. S. Behind him Cass Gilbert left many a great building to keep his memory alive through many a long year...