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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President into his wheel chair, rolled him the length of the West colonnade to the new White House offices. Before the President departed for Hawaii last July he turned over to the wreckers the small white, structure which Roosevelt I had erected in 1903 on what was the site of th : Presidential greenhouses. Said Roosevelt II: "While I am away from Washington this summer a long-needed renovation of and addition to our White House office building is to be started. ... If I were to listen to the arguments of some prophets of calamity ... I should fear that while...
...English festivities, including the bringing in of the Yule log, the processional bearing of the boar's head, and the baron of beef, are being revived this Christmas and New Year's season at the Chateau Frontenac, on the site of the ancient Fort Saint Louis, in Quebec...
...known that there was a civilization at Lake Valencia at the time of the Spaniards. Excavations at this site reveal that there were several earlier phases of this same culture, which had reached its highest point at the time of the Conquest. The culture was a simple one, not so advanced as that of the Incas or the Mayas. There was no metal known and the development of stone implements and pottery was advanced. The people lived in lake dwellings, and practiced agriculture. It is from these lake dwellings and similar ones along the coast that Venezuela took its name...
...vale of Cashmir, April 15 and begin the 330-mile caravan journey on the famous Turkestan-Cashmir route, the highest road in the world. Twenty-five native drivers will accompany the 100 horses and 20 yaks which will carry six tons of food and equipment to the base camp site...
...public lecture on "Site Planning for Low-cost Housing" will be given at the Harvard University School of City Planning this morning at 11 o'clock, by Henry Wright, of New York, N., Y., noted architect who assisted in the development of the model town of Radburn N. J., and the Buhl Foundation Housing Project of Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Wright holds the opinion that row houses in small units are preferable to struggle family houses for low-cost housing. He was in charge of the site planning of Radburn, the so-called "New Town for the Motor...