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...Table Conference on India were announced in London last week. Notably absent was the name of any follower of St. Gandhi, any member of his Indian National Congress. The Nationalist leaders, realizing that adoption of any part of their program by the Round Table Conference is virtually impossible, primly withstood British blandishment, refused to attend...
...crops. World overproduction has ruined all four. A $30,000,000 loss is not a disaster to such a country, it is Calamity. Dominicans wandering in the stench of burning corpses last week took some comfort in the fact that cathedral, palace, fortress, nearly all their oldest stone buildings, withstood the hurricane...
...Most famed "anti-seismic" building is the Imperial Hotel at Tokyo, the creation of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, which successfully withstood the 1923 quake. Its foundations are insloping, not vertical...
...west he went the better he was received. In California his rectilinear houses seemed a natural evolution of the Mission tradition. He designed the square-cut Imperial Hotel in Tokyo and his theory that architecture should be adapted to modern materials and building methods was justified when the structure withstood the earthquake of 1923. In Buffalo he built a factory for Larkin Co. which was one of the first to emphasize pier and grill construction. The ateliers of Europe long ago paid respect to Architect Wright. Progressive U. S. architects long ago fell in with his rectilinear mode because...
Thirty minutes later as he drove down Capitol Hill he was feeling very much better because he had not only talked transfer effectively but, more important, had successfully withstood the hectoring of Wets who sought to evoke his personal opinion on Prohibition...