Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...firm of Holabird & Root of Chicago went a medal last week because they had designed Chicago's Palmolive office building, a severe and splendid tower, gleaming in the sun by day, arc-lit by night. It was the Gold Medal of Honor of New York's Architectural League,* most coveted prize in the profession, awarded last week during the League's annual exhibition...
...teaches its warriors the virtue of utility, simple methods. Modern architects expound the same virtues. Perhaps the fact that many of them fought in the World War is significant. In November 1918, John Wellborn Root, Captain with the U. S. Engineer Corps in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives, was wounded near Nancy. John Augur Holabird, later to become his architectural partner, was a West Pointer, served as Major and later as Lieutenant Colonel of Field Artillery...
...atmosphere of wealthy exclusiveness is matched only by its reputation for eminent respectability. Famed among its members are Herbert Clark Hoover, John Pierpont Morgan, George Woodward Wickersham, William Howard Taft, John William Davis, Henry Lewis Stimson. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Thomas William Lamont, Dwight Whitney Morrow, Owen D. Young, Elihu Root, Nicholas Murray Butler, Bishop William Thomas Manning...
Donors. Among those who have become sufficiently interested in the Bennington experiment to give the college money are: Mrs. Charles Gary Rumsey (nee Harriman); Seward Prosser, board chairman of Bankers Trust Co.; Lawyer Arthur Atwood Ballantine, chairman of the College Committee, Elihu Root Jr. partner; Mrs. Margaret Seligman Lewisohn, wife of Capitalist Samuel Adolph Lewisohn...
...Montessori Plan early took root in the U. S. The debut was handled by Anne E. George, onetime teacher in the Chicago Latin School, a graduate of the 1910-11 training course. Through her efforts, Frank Arthur Vanderlip started a Montessori school for his own and neighbors' children in his Scarborough, N. Y., home. Miss George went to Washington to further the Montessori cause. There she met Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell with whom she founded the Montessori Educational Association. Mrs. Bell was the Association's President. A school was begun on Kalorama Road, near the present home...