Word: domes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...departed ahead of him, actually did resign. Announced promptly was Mr. West's successor as Under Secretary of the Interior: his special assistant. Harry Slattery, who was also assistant to Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of the Interior Franklin Lane, later helped do the groundwork exposing the Teapot Dome scandal. Not announced at all was a new job for Mr. West...
...mountain climbing made his African years memorable. First was the great, squat, "pudding-like" dome of Kilimanjaro, 19,710 feet, in Tanganyika, the highest mountain in Africa. Since the Germans built huts on it during the War, at 8,500 feet and at 11,500 feet, Author Tilman says cavalierly that Kilimanjaro offers ''no climbing difficulties whatsoever." The great jagged tower of Mount Kenya, 17.040 feet, buttressed with ridges and festooned with hanging glaciers, was a far tougher job. On the peak experienced climbers had violent attacks of vomiting, and on the descent Tilman fell 80 feet...
...Fogg group is of special interest because some of the statuettes are models of famous Baroque works of Bernini. Among them are studies for the figure of Longinus, designed for one of the piers under the dome of St. Peter's in Rome, a figure for the gold and bronze Chair of St. Peter in the apse, and five angels intended for the Ponte S. Angelo on the Tiber...
Publisher Paul Block is a squat, sallow, bald little Punch. Stray strands of grey criss-cross his polished dome, its grey fringe bristles when he gets excited, which is often. He pleasantly insists that friendships are his "hobby." One great & good friend whom he has long had is William Randolph Hearst. Partly with Hearst money, Mr. Block acquired nine substantial dailies...
...made by the majority against the chairman, Directors Morgan and Lilienthal also did all the talking, Chairman Morgan none. But highly documented though these were with magazine articles, letters, telegrams and interoffice memoranda which the President judicially accepted as "exhibits," they sounded less like the beginning of a Teapot Dome than like the charges in a divorce suit. Samples: that Chairman Morgan, in an Atlantic Monthly article on public power programs, had "impugned the integrity of the Tennessee Valley Authority," that he had consulted with a former private utility executive, onetime Vice President George Hamilton of Insull Middle West Utilities...