Word: interior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Secretary of the Interior Ickes moved into his new $13,000,000 Department of the Interior Building, the first major Government edifice planned and built in Washington by the New Deal. Justly proud of his massive limestone masterpiece, which sprawls over two blocks and has twelve wings to insure outside light to every office, he invited Washington newshawks in to view its wonders as soon as he got himself seated in his oak-paneled office. To his chagrin the newshawks decided that the wonder of wonders was his private bathroom with giddy blue tile walls, a tub which...
...Ernest Gruening, able director of the Department of the Interior's Division of Territories & Island Possessions, thought he had struck a truce with San Juan's Bishop Edwin Vincent Byrne, opened up 15 birth control stations. The Bishop's roars soon drove him to cover. Last week Bishop Byrne was roaring again because both houses of Puerto Rico's Legislature had just passed a bill permitting physicians to tell their patients about birth control. Governor Blanton Winship's predecessor, Catholic Robert H. Gore, began his term by announcing that he trusted in God to control...
...linoleum, has been completed for the most part within the past four years, citizens are apt to think that New Washington is largely a New Deal development. It is nothing of the sort. New Washington was the pet scheme of Andrew W. Mellon. The new Department of the Interior building, into which Secretary Ickes moved last week, is the only one of the new Federal buildings designed under the New Deal. The favorite architect of Mr. Mellon's city planners was the late Cass Gilbert (Woolworth Building), who died...
Such entertaining she did against financial obstacles, for having lost most of her fortune during the Depression, she had to eke out her income by interior decorating and real estate. At times she rented her luxurious home to well-paying guests: to Otto Kahn during the Pecora investigation, to James A. Moffett while he was Federal Housing Administrator. Not till last summer did politics take a turn which promised to relieve her finances. As an ardent Roosevelt leader at the Philadelphia Convention, she undid the damage she had done herself at Chicago. The resignation of Minister Ruth Bryan Owen...
...raised throne surrounded by seats for eight people, with star-shaped windows on each side and a crescent one in the rear (see cut, p. 59). The top was designed, at the touch of a button, to swing back and down revealing the throne-sitter-presumably Father Divine. The interior was to be lined with leather, the ceiling, of white plush with gold stars. On the radiator would be Father Divine's symbol, a dove. Aware that Hunt designed the throne car and probably planned to pay for it. G-men stood guard over it last week...