Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Major Oltarsli each managed to announce last week that his firm was participating in the contract without mentioning the other. Architect for "the most magnificent Capitol Building in Europe" will be H. Craig Severance, who devised the new 72-story Bank of Manhattan Co., now building at No. 40 Wall Street. Their scouts report that "the modernistic trend has not yet reached Rumania." Accordingly they will design the new Super-Capitol Building in oldfangled classic style. Materials and labor for the $100,000,000 project will be Rumanian so far as possible. But U. S. makers of concrete mixers, road...
...inquiries . . . many potential investors have called in person. . . . It should be emphasized that the plan is substantially, the same as that resorted to by Henry Ford when he sought financial assistance from his customers and employes, and, as Mr. Ford did, I am confident that we will prove that Wall St. hasn't got all the money awaiting investment...
...small south reading room in Langdell Hall is hung with portraits, for the most part of the Law School Faculty prior to 1879. On the center of the south wall is the group of the Royall family painted by Feke. Isaac Royall was a Boston merchant who, dying in 1781, provided in his will for a Harvard professorship of law or physic. It was not, however, until 1815 that the Corporation, which had chosen to establish a professorship of law, was able to do so. The Royall Professorship is, next to the Vinerian at Oxford, the oldest named professorship...
...Dane Professor from the former date until 1900. Many of the pictures are of professors still active in the School. Here is one of the Law School's prized possessions--the portrait of Dean Langdell by Frederic P. Vinton. The painting hangs over the great fireplace on the north wall, and on each side are portraits of James Barr Ames, '68, Professor of Law 1877-79, Bussey Professor of Law 1879-1903, Dane Professor of Law 1903-10, Dean of the School 1895-1910; and of James Bradley Thayer; '52, Royall Professor of Law 1873-83, Professor...
...portraits of American judges and lawyers are grouped in the Langdell south lecture room. The center of the south wall has a painting of Chief Justice Taney by Leutze, who painted the familiar "Washington Crossing the Delaware." The portrait of the great chief justice is regarded as notable; it shows him at the age of 83, and was made in 1859 for his daughter. On the same wall are portraits of Justices Story, Gray, McKenna; Brown, Holmes, Moody, Brandeis, and Sanford, and of Chief Justice Fuller and Taft, all of the United States Supreme Bench. Chief Justice Fuller and Justices...