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...unemployment. With him were Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Ferry K. Heath in charge of such construction and Fourth Assistant Postmaster General John W. Philp. The President's mind was full of the new buildings which would soon replace the temporary Wartime structures of plaster board and stucco in Washington which now house many a potent Government agency, many a precious record. Thoroughly familiar was he with the old warning that these 12-year-old "shacks" were the worst kind of firetraps...
...quarter-century ago, Chicago and the Midwest were startled by the appearance, here and there amid the contemporary melange of Victorian residences, of an occasional long, low rectilinear structure with severe walls of stone or stucco, and wide, overhanging roof casting deep horizontal bands of shadow on the walls. Such houses looked simple to build, serene and solid, but their blocky squareness, their squatness, aroused comment more hostile than surprised. People with established fortunes and homes suspected that only the ''newly rich" would employ so queer an architect. In the East, with its colonial traditions and propinquity...
...member of any local or state medical society, nor of the American Medical Association. Nor does the A. M. A. accept his sanitarium for its register of hospitals. Nevertheless his personality, his shrewdness, his results have won him many a famed and wealthy patient and his little stucco establishment between two churches on upper Park Avenue is both, prominent and profitable...
Chicago finally became too small for him. He went to Florida where officials did not receive him cordially. Through a dummy he purchased for $65,000 a great white stucco house with a nile-green tiled roof on Palm Island between Miami and Miami Beach, built a wall around it like a fortress. He attempted to win local favor by enormous dinners to all who would come, $20 tips to tradesmen. He served champagne regularly, barely sipped his own glass. About him were always seven swart Sicilians, his bodyguard. He collected his family about him, his Irish wife...
...plank benches of Sever and even more on those of Harvard Hall, the air in these venerable edifices has never been given a fair chance to escape from its bondage; with typical New England economy it has been used over and over. Like those Californian builders who place stucco fronts on frame houses, the University has provided ventilators which have for a long time proved admirable embellishments to the otherwise bare walls. There is one difficulty with these; with the general increase in knowledge during the last few decades, some of the more sagacious among the undergraduates have been...