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...including $1,200,000 for the immediate construction of three cruisers. The cruisers had previously been thrown out in the House by 22 votes, most of the Republican leaders voting for the cruisers against the President's wishes. In the Senate, the "radicals" and a few staunch Administration] sts sided with the President against cruisers. A majority of both parties were impressed by figures: Great Britain has 54 cruisers, Japan 25, U. S. 15.* The cruiser item will again be fought in the House, but passage is likely. In any case, however, Congress can only appropriate money; it cannot...
...rejuvenated Memorial Hall. This experiment, tried as a final resort just before the final closing of the institution, was a failure once, and probably would be again. The most obvious site for one such dining-hall is the vacant lot on the corner of Holyoke and Mt. Auburn Sts., this hall to serve men in the dormitories in the vicinity. Others should be erected where possible with a view toward accommodating the occupants of the Yard dormitories, and the students in the Kirkland St., Cambridge St., and Broadway district. Such dining-halls should be built with an eye to pleasant...
...Madison Square Garden in which the Democratic National Convention was held in 1924 no longer exists. The new Madison Square Garden is not near Madison Square but in the block between Sixth and Seventh Aves. and 50th and 51st Sts...
...course of events leading up to last week's vote in the Metropolitan board of directors was not without conflict and a tinge of acrimony. Last December Otto Hermann Kahn, chairman of the board and largest stockholder, bought the city block bounded by 56th and 57th Sts. and by 8th and 9th Aves. He did this quietly, anonymously, and proceeded to bring about the Metropolitan's vote of removal. There is a conservative faction in the producing company, stockholders with blood of deepest indigo and an inbred suspicion of change. To control this element, Mr. Kahn transfused...
Recently, however, Manhattan has re-entered the competition. A building syndicate has acquired the block hounded by Lexington Ave., Depew Place, 43rd and 44th Sts., adjacent to the Grand Central Station. On this site will be erected a building rising 30 stories above the street level, and extending seven stories beneath it; it will he completed Mar. 1,1927. The new structure will be the largest office building in the world, since it will contain 21,000,000 cubic feet and have 1,350,000 square feet of office space?30,000 more than the General Motors Building...