Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President shortly afterward imposed his tenth veto on a bill to place a bronze tablet bearing a design of the Congressional Medal of Honor on the grave of Brigadier General Robert H. Dunlap, U. S. M. C., in Arlington Cemetery. His objection: it established a precedent contrary to Cemetery rules and constituted a discrimination against other holders of the decoration buried at Arlington. ¶ The President signed a municipal bankruptcy bill by which bankrupt towns and cities may, with the consent of a Federal District Court and 75% of their creditors, compromise their debts to get back on their financial...
...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 and the soaring sense of uplift achieved more than...
Besides the Woolworth design, Mr. Gilbert's greatest-in-size was the huge George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River, for which he was consultant architect and which, against his wishes, was never encased in granite. Two Gilbert buildings were in construction at the moment of his death: the new $9,700,000 U. S. Supreme Court building in Washington (TIME, Oct. 24, 1932), a $10,700,000 Federal Court House for Manhattan...
...competition for the 1915 Senior Button the Committee has awarded the prize to the design submitted by Kenneth John Conant '15 of Two Rivers. Wis. The winning design is a simple one, displaying the numerals...
...work of completing the new Stadium which is now being carried forward under the supervision of Professor I. N. Hollis will follow in general the plans of the original design. The work, which will not be complete until the first part of August, will be temporarily discontinued during Class Day week...