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After the War the A. F. of L.'s power, the seat of which had been moved to a handsome Doric building on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue, dwindled. The Federation became more & more respectable. Its leaders had tasted national and international power, had associated as equals with the bigwigs of finance and politics. They decided to form banks which could lend money to fair employers, withholding it from concerns which favored the open shop. If Capital had to be fought, it would be fought with Capitalistic weapons. First labor organization to founder in this foreign field...
...proceedings will be broadcasted over a nation wide book up. It is possible to foretell the announcer's description-"the twenty-four great doric columns each of pure marble weighing fifty-three tons apiece, the two graves within, and the lone willow tree growing over them...". Then the speeches. "A leader of a great democracy, a statesman who steered the ship of state safely through troubled waters after the war, a great American." Then the Star Spangled Banner...
...strangers this assortment may present some difficulty. It is just possible that some day a man will walk into the new Doric pillared dining room hoping to make a deposit in the new Bank of Cambridge. But with the passing of the years when age has blended all the buildings into one symphonic mass, everyone will realize that the dining room is but the melting pot of Adams House where all the raw gold of the coast is being alloyed...
...Greek Doric Temple," Professor Chase, Fogg Large Lecture Room...
...Doric facade of Washington's Union Station poured two trainloads of eighth grade rural school children, some of their parents, teachers and Superintendent A. G. Meating, organizer of the pilgrimage. Led by their band, clad in bright blue uniforms, the boys and girls marched to the Capitol. There they were addressed by their Congressman, George J. Schneider, and Secretary James William Crabtree of the National Education Association. After 350 small Outagamians had received their diplomas, they marched off again to the White House, serenaded and had a look at President Hoover on his lawn...