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High above the half-deserted docks of New Orleans gleams the new, 20-story tower of Charity Hospital, largest State hospital for acute and contagious diseases in the world. Last week Charity directors paid the last of their contractor's bills. Meantime ugly rumors clustered about Charity's head...
Died. Abraham Solomon Shafer, 47, building contractor, who raised hob at President Roosevelt's Little Businessmen's conference in 1938 (got himself ejected); by his own hand (hanging); in Philadelphia...
...this sign of rain. They were comparatively unexcited by another Ohio G. O. P. victory, the expected 2-to-1 election of plutocratic Frances Payne Bingham Bolton* of Cleveland to succeed her late husband, Chester C. Bolton. Sharp-witted Mrs. Bolton was a gilt-edged financial asset, but Coshocton Contractor McGregor was a real homespun portent...
Died. Alexander Mair Stewart, 82, Canadian-born building contractor responsible for the erection of Mitsui Gomei Kaisha bank in Tokyo, the Hotel Savoy in London, Château Frontenac in Quebec, the capitols of Utah, Oklahoma, Idaho, Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, and in Washington the Interstate Commerce, Department of Labor and U. S. Chamber of Commerce buildings; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...competent leader must carefully choose musicians for his band. Every contractor has his own idea about the type men he wants, and naturally picks them to especially fit his particular style. In so doing, he must not destroy the means of identifying his music. It isn't always easy, by the way, to find such men on short notice. Musicians, like bands, have their own style, and this is important in making up the personnel of the band. Sometimes one who plays well, doesn't fit in another capacity and vice versa; thus, all details must be carefully scrutinized...