Word: siting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could. Secretary of War James William Good last week might have charged out into a grassy field just below New Orleans, waved his Arms wildly, uttered loud noises from his throat. This he might have done to rout a herd of cows complacently grazing over the site of one of the few U.S. victories in the War of 1812. But as decorous conduct is expected of the Secretary of War, and as he was hundreds of miles from New Orleans, Mr. Good had to content himself with drafting a bill and forwarding it to the House Military Affairs Committee providing...
...Last year the A. F. of L. offered $1,000 in prizes in a competition for designs for a $120,000 memorial to the late great Samuel Gompers. Congress has already donated a site on Washington's Massachusetts Ave. hard by the A. F. of L. building...
...architect, like its architecture, was Italian: Adamo Boari. Other Latins and one Hungarian did some sculpture. A feature is the Tiffany glass screen-a glass mosaic fireproof curtain weighing 27 tons, academically decorated to illustrate the legend of volcanoes Ixtaccihuatl and Popocatepetl, Aztec lovers. When the theatre's site was excavated, workmen uncovered the steeple of a church which had sunk in the swampy ground. For months giant pumps injected concrete under the foundation, uselessly. The dome is unfinished but the structure has a roof. It is used for automobile shows, concerts. To raise more money the government once...
Last week God failed to preserve other Methodist lots on the opposite side of the street. These and the house on them were the property of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The government wanted the site for the new home of the Supreme Court of the U. S. A federal board condemned it and Bishop Cannon was obliged to sell. His Virginia admirers in 1925 had given him this $12,500 abode believing he had pauperized himself in the cause of Prohibition. In Washington he lived at the Driscoll Hotel, on the opposite side...
Died. Rear Admiral Charles Fremont Pond, retired, 73, of Berkeley, Cal.; in Berkeley. He selected the site of the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...