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...Japan, Australia, Russia. Belgium and other nations. Epoch in the company's venerable history was when Andrew Carnegie came to it and President James Hemphill, irked by Europe's supremacy in steel, offered to build him the greatest plant in the world on the instalment plan. That plant was Homestead Steel Works. James Hemphill almost went blind on it, finished the work in a dark room with bandages over his eyes, giving orders from his memory of the plans he could not see. New President Ervin has sold road materials, electrical appliances, skylights and sheet metal...
...haven't had a break in all these court actions, but I'm determined to preserve the peace of my homestead. I'll hold this White House, my ancestral home, in spite of hell & high water, and I'll do it in the manner of any son of the Old West. If the officers come for me they'd better bring a machine...
Modern architecture is not confined to New York. The new style stressing the horizontal line in low two-story residential buildings with great rectangular areas of cement and glass, has materialized in a large homestead development in Vite Park, Cleveland, where the New York architects, Clauss and Daub have made a venture. An art Guild Hall in Darien, Connecticut, is an example of the latest developments carried out on a large scale. In Berlin, prominent residences are done in the chaste modern style. In Soviet Russia, and near Frankfurt, simple modern tenements are housing poor people...
...statue of the first Artemas Ward to be placed in a new circle at the junction of Massachusetts and Nebraska Avenues in Washington, D.C. The terms of the bequest provide that after the University has fittingly honored the great general by erecting memorials, and maintaining the old Ward-homestead which is located in Shrewsbury, where the general lived and died, the remaining money is to be used for whatever purpose the University sees fit. Memorials have already been erected in Cambridge and Shrewsbury...
...Cherry Orchard. Unlike the Chekhovian piece, Playwright Gretchen Damrosch Finletter's play depends entirely on its urban scene. The Frenches were a proud, suave clan as long as they could cling to their Fifth Avenue mansion. When the son gets into financial trouble, compels the family to sell the homestead to keep him out of jail, the Frenches become impotent, scatter like smoke in the wind...