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...with fat, noncompetitive contracts to supply the State with such things as prison uniforms. His crowning reward was the presidency of the New Orleans Levee Board, with permission to build and name for himself a $4,000,000 airport having "Shushan" engraved 3,200 times on its metal, stone, tile and bronze. It was he who, as a bosom friend, stayed by Long's death bed. rushed out with the first news of his passing...
...death early in September. He wrote many books on Oriental art, and was one of the first to penetrate Cambodia, a region in Indo-China, for artistic research. It was he who introduced Persian pottery to the Boston public, as well as awaken an interest in the colored tile of this region. Although he was a profuse collector, Dr. Ross kept few objects for himself, giving the majority to either the Boston Museum or the Fogg...
...building and ground, nothing for the presses he wanted to leave behind. Then the State Supreme Court upheld Mr. Chandler in his demand that he be paid for his equipment. Meantime, Mr. Chandler had started his new plant, a six-story miniature skyscraper topped by an Hispanic tile roof, with the printing plant separated from the main structure by a 6-in. crack. Next the City Council stepped in, offered to save a retrial by a new appraisal which set the figure at a high $1,875,000. That was the signal for Mr. Chandler to do the handsome thing...
...Cabinet of Premier Walery Slawek moved slowly down the aisle. Outside the sun was just breaking through the rain clouds. Along silent streets lined with troops and weeping crowds, the body passed. At one spot there was a near panic. A ladder left by some workman on a tile roof clattered to the ground. People screamed, broke windows, milled about, until square-capped officers with drawn sabres had cleared a path...
Each maid is given anywhere from twelve to sixteen boys. No exceptions are made as to whether you work in the Houses where all modern improvements prevail, or whether you are in the old dorms in the Yard, where there is no tile or parquet floors to take care...