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...three shipbuilding companies promptly issued denials. Eugene Gifford Grace, president of Bethlehem Ship-building which built the cruiser Northampton launched last week (see col. 2), said Lobbyist Shearer's suit was "without merit." Homer Lenoir Ferguson, president of Newport News Co. which built the cruiser Houston also launched last week, said that his company had never employed "Shearer or any one else to oppose disarmament." Clinton Lloyd Bardo, president of New York Shipbuilding Co. (subsidiary of American Brown Boveri) said the suit was "wholly unsupported by the facts...
...WOMAN OF IT-Clare Ogden Davis -Sears ($2.50). Though onetime assistant to Mrs. Miriam Amanda Ferguson, former Governor of Texas, Author Davis forgets whatever she may have learned of female politicians. Her novel contains the highly artificial story of a woman governor who sacrificed her politics for her man. Obvious, banal, stupid, didactic, the Davis style has all the anemia of a lady's home journal...
...defense of Southern industrialists rose Homer Lenoir Ferguson, president of Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding Co., onetime (1919-20) president of U. S. Chamber of Commerce, employer of 7,000 non-union men, stockholder in four textile mills. Mr. Ferguson's company is one of the South's great industrial concerns. It reconditioned the Leviathan after the War, built the turbo-electric Panama-Pacific liners Virginia, California, and Pennsylvania, as well as many a vessel for the Navy. Strongwilled, strong-spoken, Mr. Ferguson declared...
...constantly in fear that the fad for Gothic, for which credit or crime is at least partially due to Messrs. Cram and Ferguson will spread to some of those universities which still represent in their buildings the unmixed blessings of a single native tradition in architecture, that our own earlier unique and dignified American inheritance will be sacrificed, and that a Gothic anachronism will appear on the campus of the University of Virginia, William and Mary or at Harvard as now threatens. May God forbid such desecration--From a communication in The Daily Princetonian...
...James Renwick for more than six years. This able mentor disciplined his pupil's design sense, his pen and pencil technique, later famed for its own sake. Then Architect Goodhue went to Boston where he soon became the partner of Ralph Adams Cram in a firm (Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson) destined to rank with such partnerships as McKim, Mead & White or Carrere and Hastings. Architect Cram was and is a devout, learned Episcopalian Gothicist, medievalist. Architect Goodhue soon returned to Manhattan to superintend the firm's office there. A rift developed between the partners. The inventive Goodhue Gothic...