Word: projects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another agitator: Edward William Bok, Philadelphia publicist, whose son William Curtis testified last winter before the House tariff-makers. Last week the Curtis Institute of Music, pet project of Mrs. Bok, announced a course in campanology (carillon-playing) under Anton Brees, carillonneur of the Bok carillon at Mountain Lake...
...opened by N. E. A.'s President Uel Walter Lamkin. His message and plea: there should be no Federal dictation in educational matters. Thus, curtly, was dismissed the suggestion that all U. S. educators use Prohibition propaganda in their schools and text books (see p. 10). That Federal project had given N. E. A. members something new to think about. For years the N. E. A. has advocated the establishment of a U. S. Department of Education with a representative in the Cabinet. How much more likely, wondered observers, would the Government be to "dictate" in educational matters...
...next large Stone & Webster contract was a second job for Paperman Warren, to build a power plant that would carry 1,000 h.p. for seven miles at 1,000 volts. Such a plant seemed then a great project, though since that time Stone & Webster have constructed such power plants as that of Southern California Edison, which carries 250,000 h.p. for 250 miles at 250,000 volts...
First up rose Representative Homer Hoch, Kansas Republican, to propose an amendment by which all aliens would be omitted from the population count on which representation is based. Such a counting of voters rather than of heads has long been a favorite project of Drys and the Ku Klux Klan, for it would reduce the representation of large Eastern cities with their many Wet and Liberal aliens. Exclusion of aliens would, for instance, cut six members from New York's representation. A coalition of Southern Democrats and Western Republicans from states adversely affected by reapportionment secured the adoption...
There were 47 participants, seven finalists after preliminary competitions. The final project called for a giant art centre with galleries, auditorium, offices, library, studios. Architect Johnson rendered a rectangular two-story building with a Doric portico, a serene, traditional design with much unadorned wall space. He wins a prize valued at $8,000-including residence and studio for three years at the American Academy in Rome, transportation funds, a yearly stipend...