Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Architect Wright did not worry. He found plenty of Midwesterners either new-rich or bold enough to take an interest in his personality and ideas. The farther west he went the better he was received. In California his rectilinear houses seemed a natural evolution of the Mission tradition. He designed the square-cut Imperial Hotel in Tokyo and his theory that architecture should be adapted to modern materials and building methods was justified when the structure withstood the earthquake of 1923. In Buffalo he built a factory for Larkin Co. which was one of the first to emphasize pier...
Those dissident Christian Scientists who in 1912 organized the Christian Science Parent Church in opposition to Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science Mother Church (The First Church of Christ, Scientist) in Boston, last week changed the name of their organization to the Church of Universal Design. More, they renounced Mrs. Eddy as discoverer of their cult. In her place they put Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, Portland (Me.) clockmaker and "mental healer," from whom (they profess) Mrs. Eddy got her ideas. Reason for these shifts of reverence and name was given by John Valentine Dittemore, onetime director of the Christian Science...
...Cass Gilbert, president National Academy of Design ... Litt.D...
...ladies and ladylike gentlemen who read Vogue were disturbed to read in the May 24 issue of that famed semimonthly fashion chart the following appeal: "Constantly we have to face the problem presented by newspaper publishers, department stores and advertising art services who use or adapt Vogue cover designs, illustrations, decorations or other material and offer it to the public as their own without asking our permission. . . We are asking our readers to help us detect these flagrant violations of a fundamental and well-understood law. If you observe any Vogue cover design ... or other material reproduced in any magazine...
Only one markedly radical design was shown: George Fernics "tandem" monoplane with its three-wheel landing gear. Of low-wing sport type, the plane has a small auxiliary wing mounted in the fore of the fuselage which, by stalling earlier than the main wing, reduces the chances of complete involuntary stalling and spinning. The third wheel, mounted beneath the nose, places the ship in constant flying position, also prevents nosing over...