Word: dreams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyebrow. Too many facts fitted too neatly into a contrary pattern. In 1921 hardfisted, go-getting Chancellor Bowman had a vision. He would dramatize and thus revive his huge,* down-at-heels University by giving it the tallest academic building in the world. For 13 years he has thought, dreamed, talked of almost nothing else. Under his flowery salesmanship Pittsburgh pocketbooks melted. His dream became 42 stories of clean steel towering above the city's smoke and grime. But Depression canceled many a promise of cash. Since 1931 the Cathedral of Learning has been a stranded skeleton, with students...
...spent on the Cathedral. A Magyar woman gave the price of a month's meat. A millworker offered his all. But modern cathedrals are not built by small fry. To Pittsburgh's potent industrialists Chancellor Bowman had to turn for the huge chunks of cash which his dream demands. His trustees include Andrew William Mellon and his nephew Richard, Oilman Joseph Clifton Trees, Foodman Howard Heinz. Westinghouse Boardchairman Andrew Wells Robertson, Banker Henry Clay McEldowney, Steelman Ernest Tener Weir...
...King of Kings, ingratiating Dr. Rushdi sounded His Majesty on the great project of a Middle Eastern Alliance, a bloc to be constructed in spite of Britain and France by Moslems of Turkey, Persia, Irak, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Transjordania and Egypt. Such at least is Dr. Rushdi's dream. And last week the King of Kings had left Persia for the first time since he seized the Peacock Throne in 1925 to discuss both Moslem dreams and realities with his Turkish neighbors...
...some Whitmanesque Tugwelliana, written by the young professor when he was 24. It began: I am strong, I am big and well-made, I am muscled and lean and nervous. . . . It ended: I am sick of a nation's stenches I am&ick of propertied Czars. . . . I have dreamed my great dream of their passing, I have gathered my tools and my charts; My plans are fashioned and practical; I shall roll up my sleeves-make America over! In the next 20 years Dr. Tugwell became a professor of economics and settled down to teach at Columbia...
...CHINESE TESTAMENT: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF TAN SHIH-HUA AS TOLD TO S. TRETIAKOV-Simon & Schuster ($3). Russian-ghosted autobiography of a Chinese intellectual, unsensational, indigenous. THE METHOD OF FREEDOM-Walter Lippmann-Macmillan ($1.50). Lectures delivered at Harvard last month by a noted public-pulse-finder. DREAM AND ACTION-Leonard Bacon- Harper ($2). Narrative poem based on the life of the late great Poet-to-end-Poets Arthur Rimbaud, with a translation of the famed Bateau Ivre. THE PROVINCIAL LADY IN AMERICA- E. M. Delafield-Harper ($2). Author Delafield's famed Provincial Lady visits the U. S., keeps her ironic...