Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mr. Littauer is already assured of renown by the building which he so generously gave and which bears his name. But his ideas on the subject of public administration, perhaps the most important part of his gift, have still to be perpetuated. It is therefore up to the hand-picked fellows of the Graduate School of Public Administration, which is housed in the Littauer Center, to carry forth into the world the results of their research. For as Dean Williams has said, the emphasis of the School will be upon investigation and research rather than upon formal instruction. Through...
Long-legged, youthful-looking Powel Crosley Jr. towered above a tiny automobile at the Indianapolis motor speedway one day last week while his grandson broke a bottle of gasoline on its nose and 200 Crosley Corp. dealers applauded the christening. Then Mr. Crosley tucked his six-foot-four frame comfortably behind the steering wheel and posed for photographers...
What the Crosley dealers saw as he sat there was a sleek, rakish, convertible sedan with tiny wheels, wide doors, a neatly streamlined hood and front end. Designed to sell cheaply, like Crosley radios and refrigerators, to run economically (like Mr. Crosley's Cincinnati Reds), the new four-passenger car has a two-seater companion, a convertible coupè which can also be used as a quarter-ton delivery...
...Comstock Lode, got an ICC railroad operator's license to transport V&T's 37 vintage cars to location (at 15 m.p.h.). > He persuaded 700 reluctant Piutes, Sioux, Cheyennes and Navahos, some of whom had steady jobs on WPA to work in breechclouts, despite low temperatures Chuckled Mr. DeMille when the thermometer once approached zero: "First time I ever saw a red man turn blue." > Disliking the looks of contemporary Cheyenne, he built a pioneer Cheyenne to his taste at Iron Springs, Utah. > Dissatisfied with the color of the California dirt for track-laying purposes...
...which Mr. Littauer gave to establish the new center, only part has been spent on the building, a four story, granite structure, which houses not only the School of Public Administration but in addition a 200,000 volume library, an auditorium, eight large seminar rooms, a large reading room, lounge, and a statistical laboratory...