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...Museum in purpose, the Bache Museum too will preserve the collection of a very rich man in the rooms and in the setting that he chose for it. There are certain minor differences. It took the forceful daughter of Henry Clay Frick. her trustees and architects, four years to remodel her father's home as a public museum. For many years Banker Bache kept his great collection in a large Manhattan apartment, bought his present house in 1925 with the idea of turning it into a museum. For his own use Mr. Bache kept only a small suite...
...Only last week Manhattan newshawks discovered a WPA supervisor named George K. Gombarts who had been put in charge of a number of carpenters, plumbers and unemployed artists to remodel a condemned public school as a free art school. At the end of several months they had completed the supervisor's private office with bath & dressing room, imitation Tudor stone fireplace, stained glass windows, hand-painted draperies and a Flemish tapestry of a knight in shining armor striding toward a castle. The knight is George K. Gombarts. "It's a dream we had," said Supervisor Gombarts last week...
...organization would be functioning in 30 days, found his plan's hung up. The campaign for new building was postponed to concentrate on modernization. Last week Alma McCrum, a Washington insurance agent, marched into a bank, signed a note, and as flashlights flickered, was given $1,200 to remodel the second floor of her home and rent it as an apartment. The housing drive...
...rather than from the public treasury. As with many another recovery measure, the National Housing Act looked invincible on paper. To attain its objective, attacks were aimed along three lines: 1) As a stopgap until the rest of the program could be started, citizens were to be encouraged to remodel and repair their houses. This was to bring out perhaps $1,000,000,000 of private capital. The Government was to set up a Home Credit Insurance Corp. to insure banks and other accredited lenders against 20% of any loss they may have from making loans to remodelers...
...best means of fulfilling the requirement of the English Department for one course in Pre-Shakespearian literature is a year of Chaucer. There are already graduate courses in the field, for example, English 4 (Middle English: Language and Literature from 1150 to 1400), and it seems highly advisable to remodel English 1 on the lines of the tremendously popular courses in Chaucer at Yale and Princeton. At present there is no course at Harvard devoted to the study of one of the greatest and most neglected figures in English literature as a poet rather than as a specimen of philology...