Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem before the competitors is of an unusual nature. The task is to draw up plans for a new White House, a spacious presidential residence on Analostan Island in the Potomac, opposite the Lincoln Memorial, on the supposition, suggested by government officials that the old residence be used for a historical museum. The competitors are 'given' a building, which they can place on the island in any position they choose. Guest houses, garages and other outhouses are left to the competitors consideration...
That a resistless current will before long draw all such men into the vast majority of their fellow students there is no reason to doubt; and in the meanwhile the less is theirs...
First act last week of Switzerland's newly-elected President Giuseppe Motta (born near the Italian frontier, three times previously elected president-1915, 1920 & 1927) was to draw attention to a little- noticed clause in the new Swiss Military Penal Code making it a crime for Swiss to enlist without the Government's authorization under a foreign flag. As late as the 18th Century Spain, France and the Pope hired Swiss mercenaries. Pope Pius XI still has a Swiss Guard.† Whether they, in serving under the Papal flag, are now criminals under Swiss law did not appear...
...Soviet Union," he promised, "will follow steadfastly a policy of peace. . . . The events in Manchuria merely illustrate the designs and schemes attempted to draw the Soviet Union into...
...more have been defaulted by twelve denominations alone. Church credit, said le, is none too good; church building projects are being held up by Depression. Director Keeler suggested a remedy: let a small group of rich men establish a fund of $10,000,000, to draw 3% interest, to be lent to needy churches on long-term notes at 4%. The Council appointed a committee to study the matter...