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...young to remember what happens when enemy planes ride over a town. I knew then that what I wanted more than anything else in the world was to do something to lessen this horror. When I was in the university laying bricks, mixing cement and learning how to erect steel girders, I began to figure out a way to perfect something which would conserve not only human life but materials. These bombproof houses are the result...
...attorneys. It was all over. The two attorneys rose, started for the door. Mr. Ritter remained seated with arms folded, as if his disgrace glued him to his chair. Finally he half rose, and for a moment seemed about to collapse. Then, with an effort, he stood erect, marched out of the Senate Chamber with a firm step. Newshawks crowded around asking questions. With a look of anguish in his eyes he declared: "I have nothing to say. God, can't you see why I have nothing to say? I'm going back to Florida...
...point of contact, it is Mr. Toll's office building in Chicago. There now are the headquarters of 17 organizations serving local governments (e. g., Civil Service Assembly, Public Administration Clearing House, U. S. Conference of Mayors, National Association of Tax Assessing Officers). Presently Rockefeller money is to erect a $500,000 building on Chicago's Midway to house these secretariats, a sort of League of Nations Palace for the local governments of the 48 states...
...terms of the White Paper Germany was not to erect fortifications in the Rhineland. Last week news that Adolf Hitler had ordered the most intensive German efforts to build fortifications in the Rhineland as fast as possible made the interest of His Majesty's Government in the British White Paper diminish even further. To find out exactly where the British stood a French delegate to the League Council in London, famed trial Lawyer Joseph Paul-Boncour, visited Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, then flew to Paris. Said he: "The only answer I received was a movement of the head-neither...
...When he heard of a proposed statue of himself, he demurred. "It does not seem proper to me that expense should be incurred in this manner at the present time. How can you be sure that I always shall live up to the monument that you propose to erect to me? I intend to remain prudent at all times until my death, but who can tell...