Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brawl and refused to admit even the police until he had noted the name of every person present. Henry Justin Smith, managing editor of the Chicago Daily News, told how a diver, grateful for a courtesy extended by the paper years before, telephoned from the bottom of Lake Michigan to the News desk, introduced himself, gave an eye-witness account of an underwater construction accident which had just killed...
...careers have been almost identical, the two Johns are not alike. To Mr. Root, now 47, generally goes credit for brilliant designs and breath-taking solutions; to Mr. Holabird, praise for mastering minutiae, overcoming practical obstacles. More social than his partner, chunky bespectacled Mr. Root enjoys peering at Lake Michigan from the Saddle & Cycle Club, going to parties. He was promoter and part-owner last year of the Century of Progress' most popular concession, the Streets of Paris. Tall, thin, gruff Mr. Holabird is rarely seen in public except at the opera. An expert fly caster, he modestly refuses...
...Institute, unlike most other U. S. museums, has managed to accumulate a $600,000 nest egg for a new building program. Last week the Institute announced plans for the first of three major additions which will eventually make the Institute a huge quadrangle of art between Michigan Avenue and the Outer Drive. No Chicago wiseacre was surprised to learn that the winner of the design competition was the Chicago architectural firm of Holabird & Root...
...Aged 21, he was elected to the Arizona Territorial Legislature. Two years later he became Speaker, and in the same year was admitted to the bar and hung out his shingle at Williams. In 1902 he went to the Territorial Senate. After a year at the University of Michigan (1903?04) studying law and political economy, he returned to Williams where he married Elizabeth McEvoy Renoe and was made district attorney of Coconino County in 1904. Five years later he moved to Prescott to pursue private practice. In 1912, when Arizona was admitted to the Union, the Legislature picked...
...Court. Last week Architect-Manager Marshall of the Drake did likewise. Hotelman Byfield still had his beauteous second wife, four children, salaries as hotel manager under the receivership and as president of a solvent subsidiary, College Inn Food Products Co. Hotelman Marshall had his gay pink house on Lake Michigan, his ship-cabin tap room, a handsome table that sinks through the floor and a Ming bed that holds seven people comfortably...