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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lewis Mum ford, noted critic and author, will give a series of six free, public lectures at Harvard University this month on "The Backgrounds of American Architecture," beginning tomorrow night at New Lecture Hall, at 8 o'clock. The lectures are jointly sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Design and by the Harvard Committee on Extra-curricular Study of American Civilization...
...Open Wound." Only the colors of the flags of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland are different, the design is the same-a cross on a plain field*-and wealthy Stockholm with her many lagoons, beauteous "Venice of the North," was a brilliant forest of cross-flags last week as the President of Finland alighted at Bromma Airport with brisk, energetic Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko...
Appointed visiting member of the University's new Graduate Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Fred N. Dickerman, aeronautical engineer, will lecture on practical airplane design at the Graduate School of Engineering this year, it was announced yesterday...
Sponsored by the American Civilization Plan and the Graduate School of Design, his other lectures will be on Thursday, November 9; Tuesday, November 14; Thursday, November 16; Tuesday, November 21, and Thursday, November 23. Mumford will also conduct several seminars open to students in the Graduate School of Design and the undergraduate Department of Architectural Sciences...
Masters of ersatz, Germans devised detours, pretenses, camouflages. They built underground factories; used commercial planes to develop military design; laid out airfields planted in alfalfa, made hangars like barns, dressed greaseballs like hayseeds. Thousands of young Germans joined Deutsche Lujtsport Verband (German Air Sports Society) and proceeded to fly their sports planes up & down Germany in tight military formations. Meanwhile civilians took to gliding and soaring...