Word: skyscraperism
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For the second time in seven months a Governor of North Dakota last week called armed soldiers into the skyscraper Capitol at Bismarck to protect himself against forcible ejection from office. With a court action to oust him already in progress, the Nonpartisan League-controlled House had impeached Democratic Governor...
To the Paris Bourse it was grand news. Rumors of mild inflation rippled on smiling lips. Speculators grinned as shares bulged, then moderately boomed. France was getting action at last from her new Premier, the youngest in French history, M. Pierre Etienne Flandin, 45, called Le Gratte-Ciel ("The Skyscraper...
¶ The third largest library in Great Britain, Cambridge University's new "skyscraper" of twelve stories, was opened by His Majesty last week with an able aphorism: "This magnificent gift . . . reminds us that education knows no national frontiers.'' Cambridge spent $1,145,000 but an additional $1...
THE PROUD AND THE MEEK-Jules Romains-Knopf ($2.50). Slowly but surely Jules Romains is building his skyscraper novel of modern Paris. Men of Good Will. Last week U. S. gazers saw the third floor finished. Though it is still too soon to judge the architecture of the building, critics...
In the summer of 1934 when jobless men from factory and skyscraper turned to pick out PWA highways or to hoe subsistence gardens, Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service searched for a relationship between a man's occupation and his health. Death proved...