Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...founded in 1848 by Joseph Seligman, U. S. immigrant from Bavaria in 1835. Becoming wealthy as merchant and importer, Joseph Seligman entered the banking business, sent for his seven brothers. Since then there have always been several Seligmans in the Seligman House. Present representatives of the family in the firm are Henry, Jefferson and Walter Seligman. Perhaps the most distinguished in the firm is shy, quiet, poetry-loving Frederick Strauss,* honorary Phi Beta Kappa member, so little given to publicity that Who's Who does not include his name...
...last analysis, the problem rests in the hands of the architects. Furthermore, the importance of the project deserves all procurable attention from as many sources as possible. The monopoly of the University's physical development should by no means be intrusted to a single firm until it has made a strenuous effort to present a satisfactory solution of the controversial location of units. A competition for such a mammoth contract would draw forth valuable suggestions from a wide variety of competent sources. Such a procedure is the only way to procure the adequate consideration emphasized so strongly by both...
...been my privilege to observe the development by my father's architectural firm of the group plan of several colleges, first on paper, then in reality. Two of these, like Harvard, have had to adjust themselves to existing structures, but have yet succeeded in presenting a symmetrical whole. It is, therefore, astonishing to realize that it has been left to a committee of the Student Council to suggest what should have been solved in the office of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott. It is not my purpose to criticize the work of this capable firm (although they have designed...
...these peoples' mouth in the interest of anthropology and ethnology, as well as from an orthodontic standpoint. I consider extremely valuable, as much more data, can be obtained from models of a living person than from skulls. For instance, if the models show that the gums are apparently firm and tight around the teeth and have not receded that alone indicates to some extent a healthy mouth. From the fact that the arches are so even and well developed I should say that these people with so large arches are not mouth breathers, and therefore are not suffering from adenoids...
PIERRE WERTHEIMER Rabbits, horses, perfumes. from Manhattan to San Francisco, from. Toronto to Mexico. He returned to France the following year, became a member of the firm. A distributing company was formed, in Manhattan. Bourjois grew to be the third largest manufacturer of perfumes in the world. Pierre Wertheimer, within the last few years, has given more and more interest to breeding race horses at his 14th century barony in the Gironde district, to hunting at his lodge 100 miles from Paris. Cinema. With $1,600 saved from the cloak & suit business William Fox bought his first theatre...