Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sir Aston Webb*, 81, one of the only two architects ever elected president of the British Royal Academy; after long illness, in London. He designed many of London's greatest public buildings: the Admiralty Arch at the east end of the Mall, the Royal College of Science, the new front of Buckingham Palace...
...confused with the Rt. Hon. Sidney James Webb, recently raised to the peerage as Baron Passfield of Passfield Corner...
STUART W. WEBB...
...Gandhimen to the number of 40,000 advanced last week on the largest British salt reserve (at Wadala near Bombay), defended by 250 native police, 28 British sergeants. Correspondent Webb Miller of United Press was allowed to cable that he saw police break their staves upon the unresisting bodies of the Gandhimen. The 40,000 gradually engulfed the police, seized much of the salt, departed...
...given "all such other pictures, paintings, engravings, statuary and other works of art as my son Horace might appoint to it." No less generous than their mother, her son Horace and her daughters Adaline and Electra (now Mrs. Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey and Mrs. James Watson Webb) appointed and appointed until the H. O. Havemeyer Collection was bloated to 1.907 specific objects. More modest than other museum donors, Mrs. Havemeyer specified that her collection was not to be kept separate and sacrosanct but was to be split up and subdivided, after the original exhibition, among the proper...