Word: pres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Semitic descent. His wealth derived from his conception and industrious execution of the idea of building skyscrapers like a graduated pile of boxes with the smallest on top - the "set back'' style to provide air and light. He designed the Seaboard National Bank in New York (Seaboard Pres ident Samuel Bayne is his father-in-law), the Magnolia Petroleum Building in Dallas, Tex. Other important Bossom commissions in the U. S. included the restoration of Fort Ticonderoga for ex-Congress man Herbert C. Pell. In Britain he is a member of the London County Council and chairman...
...Groton, Conn., Uncas descendant, started suit for $1,000,000 against the State of Connecticut and the city of Norwich, on the ground that the royal burying plot, now reduced to 16 acres, had been dese crated by the removal of tombstones, the erection of a Masonic temple, high pres sure real estate development...
...since it shows lack of interest, and at the same time a desire to grumble. Let us hope for smoother elections in the future with more "people's candidates" added by petition and less criticism levied upon those in charge, in this last respect at least. W.R. Harper, Pres of Student Council...