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...October 1895, Lewis Mumford was brought up on Manhattan Island, knocked around from City College to New York University to Columbia studying philosophy, biology and literature without getting a degree. In 1915 he met the most pervasive influence of his life in a little book by a Scot named Patrick Geddes, a biologist trained under the great Thomas Henry Huxley. Geddes had turned to sociology and to the study of Edinburgh and other cities. Mumford became a student of New York. Within the next few years he covered the city systematically on foot, studied architecture, learned to tell the approximate...
Student Mumford's long correspondence and friendship with Geddes did not end until 1932, when that great-bearded, great-craniumed and voluble Scot died in France with a knighthood fresh upon him. By that time Lewis Mumford had lived, worked, sketched and studied in London, Paris, Pittsburgh and New York. He had made a literary success with a biography of Herman Melville and had written the first meagre draft of what has since been expanded to Technics and Civilization and The Culture of Cities...
That ruddy and genial Scot, Stewart McDonald, who has administered FHA for the past two years and who has seen that it has so far taken losses on just 1/1,000% of all business done, observed with customary enthusiasm: "Fifty million dollars worth of building will feel the steam shovels Monday morning!" FHA Administrator McDonald, a onetime motormaker who produced the first cheap, goodlooking car (Moon, Diana), has already done his part. He built himself a house at Palm Beach this winter...
...engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company (The Route of the "Royal Scot"), Mr. McMullen has been studying during the past year the opperating methods of the Pennsylvania Railroad...
Failing eyesight and mental depression broke his health. The Crown, anxious to honor him, offered him an earldom last May, but Scot MacDonald turned it down lest it crimp the political chances of his son Malcolm who. as Secretary of State for the Dominions, hustled back from the Brussels Conference last week to arrange his father's funeral. Because doctors worried greatly over Scot MacDonald's increasing melancholia, he was sent on the Reina del Pacifico cruise with his youngest daughter, Sheila, for companion. With his body still at sea. the British Government proffered him the honor...