Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interesting to note that among the several hundred college men in the organization there are members of the firm, merchandise counselors, and many department managers...
...Goodhue had let the contracts and dominated the construction.* This time the capitol commission and other defendants found it easier to combat Engineer Johnson for the capitol had arisen in the prairie and offered tangible evidence. Potent among the defendants was Manhattan Architect Francis L. S. Mayers of the firm of Mayers, Murray and Phillip (Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue Associates), successors to Architect Goodhue. Mr. Mayer's firm has completed much unfinished Goodhue work. Grey, solid, brisk of speech, Mr. Mayers showed at the investigation that the terrace bulged because expansion joints and drains had not been properly tended, that...
...tutelage of Architect 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...
...head of the firm is Fal de Saint Phalle, whose clubs include the Knickerbocker, the Tuxedo, and the Turf and Field, whose wife is the daughter of Mrs. E. Guidet Auchincloss, of Paris. The wives of partners Alexandre and Count Andre de Saint Phalle are sisters. They were Helen and Jacqueline Harper, daughters of Donald Harper, of Paris, who has been mentioned for U. S. Ambassador to France. His son, Donald Jr., is a partner in de Saint Phalle & Co. Partner Francois de Saint Phalle manages the Philadelphia office. Before forming the present firm, Fal de Saint Phalle...
...take their exercise on Fifth Avenue or through Central Park are chaperoned with utmost vigilance. Whether teaching Shakespeare or speaking to her Chinese butler, Thomas, or playing with her two Pekinese, Miss Spence always used to insist upon "tone." Her purpose was "to develop a perfect gentlewoman, intellectually firm, and having, poise, simplicity and graciousness." The new trustees, and the revitalized alumnae were fully prepared to ensure that the new Spence should not fall short...