Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face-lifting operation on the Capitol. To achieve architectural symmetry and uniformity of construction, the bill proposes to move the east fagade with its famed portico forward from 12 to 32 ft. and reface the white painted sandstone with white marble to match the Senate and House wings. The main section of the building between the two wings, although it has been altered, is virtually all that remains of the Capitol as it was planned in 1793. Since the great cast-iron dome was built in the 1850s to replace the smaller original one, architects, including Thomas Walter, designer...
...which the WPA boys are is $23.86 a week. Since the pay must go on whether the show does or not, WPActors' annual wage is $1,240.72. To prove that hundreds of "legit" actors get less than this from private show business, The Billboard states and accepts two main statistical premises: 1) average life of all new Broadway shows in 1936 was 5.12 weeks; and 2) six out of seven actors are engaged in only one play per year, a figure established by a Billboard survey in 1934. On this basis, an overwhelming number of actors who earn...
...Connoisseur Albert Eugene Gallatin announced that he was presenting to his great-grandfather's college a collection to be known as the Museum of Living Art. Few museums are more autocratically administered. All the pictures are chosen and paid for by Donor Gallatin. They are hung in the main study halls of N. Y. U.'s Washington Square branch, because of his belief that pictures should be lived with, not visited on pilgrimage...
...have attended the college tuition-free since the city replaced its annual grants to the University with a 5? levy on each $100 worth of taxable property. In 1931 President Kent supplemented his plant by opening a separate free college for Louisville's Negroes a mile from the main campus. Although Louisville is coeducational, grey-haired, able lowan Kent, who gets $15,000 a year, sends his own daughter Constance to Vassar...
...Another main address will be given by Professor William F. Peterson of the University of Illinois after the Association's annual dinner on Friday evening, on "Environmental Effect and Organic Differentiation...