Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convention. They heard Arthur Atwood Ballantine, Undersecretary of the Treasury, make such observations as: "What the position of the Government will be at the end of the fiscal year 1933 depends upon total expenditures and revenues for the full twelve-months period. . . . Financial problems ahead unquestionably require firm and intelligent handling." Elected president for next year was Frank M. Gordon of Chicago's First Union Trust & Savings Bank...
...raise money for unemployed draughtsmen, New York architects have held progressive cocktail parties, poker games, exhibited their hobbies. Chicago architects held a studio ball with a nude young woman, at $1 a look, as one sideshow (TIME, Feb. 22 et seq.). Recently the decorous firm of Delano & Aldrich thought...
William Adams Delano and Chester Holmes Aldrich specialize in Georgian mansions and clubhouses, at present the most depressed branch of the depressed profession of architecture. The firm's draughtsmen must not only draw but make models for their exacting clients. That gave Partner Delano an idea. Just back from Paris where he had been supervising the erection of the new U. S. Government Building fronting the Place de la Concorde, he set his idle apprentices to work designing dolls' houses. Last week with the Christmas season approaching genuine Delano & Aldrich doll houses were on sale...
...exorbitant. Unemployed draughtsmen and department stores are not the only people to benefit. Frames for the doll houses are made at Greenwich House Workshops, a semi-charitable institution to teach handiwork to New York children. Each doll house bears a Delano & Aldrich label, is a fine advertisement for the firm...
Delano & Aldrich's little houses are sold unfurnished. But alert to the advertising value, McMillen, Inc., interior decorators, will join forces with the firm of architects in an exhibition at Manhattan's Art Center...