Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each square would be directly responsible for the livelihood of at least one distressed family, resident in the same block. There are now 20,000 such desperately needy families in New York City. Director of the plan is Wilton Lloyd-Smith, 37, keen, aggressive law partner in the firm of Cotton, Franklin, Wright & Gordon. Wartime field-artilleryman, Director Lloyd-Smith now devotes a large part of his surplus energy to big-game hunting. His Labrador retriever, "Ken-jockety Jim," won the Open and Best of Breed ribbons at last month's Westminster Kennel Club show. His wife, Marjorie...
Hector Hamilton, 28, 5 ft. 5 in., is only recently an Orangeman. Born a Briton, he came to the U. S. 14 years ago determined to be an architect. He studied at New York's Cooper Union, joined the real estate firm of Frank H. Taylor & Son, Inc. More to keep his hand in than anything else, he entered the Soviet contest...
...Style sniffed at drawings of his design, called it "fake modernism." But the Hamilton design by no means represents what the completed palace will actually look like. Two Russians, B. M. Yofan and I. V. Zholtovsky, share first prize with Mr. Hamilton. Second prize went to the U. S. firm of Kastnor & Storonoff, both members of which have already won awards in a Soviet architectural competition. The Moscow idea is that all these men. and possibly 20 or 30 of the other competitors, will assemble in Moscow in the near future and together attempt to work out a final design...
...Here, where men sit and hear each other groan." He has sought comradeship in vain. The Jester has been in seclusion, incubating puns on the Shanghai situation. George Bernard Shaw has climbed off the apple cart to mount the band-wagon of reform (thereby adding another name to the firm of Wells, Russell, and Mencken, Ltd., Odd-jobbers Specializing in the Repair of Democracy, Sex, The Facts of History, and God.) The spirit of fun untainted by prostitution to a cause lives on only in the Vagabond's breast...
...after one day's illness; in Manhattan. At the death of her father, William Weightman, "the quinine king," she was sole heiress to a fortune of between $35,000,000 and $50,000,000, founded during the Civil War by selling quinine to the Federal Government (the old firm, Powers Si Weightman, was absorbed by Merck...