Word: working
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other Hastings work included Arlington Memorial Amphitheatre to the Unknown Soldier, the Senate and House of Representatives office Buildings in Washington, the Manhattan Bridge, the Manhattan Victory Arch, the interior of the Metropolitan Opera House. He did not approve the theory of Manhattan skyscrapers, but he redesigned the Ritz Tower, smart apartment hotel. He believed that the inflation of real estate values necessarily brought about by skyscrapers and the subsequent deflation of vast areas of "unimproved" ground, made for economic instability. Of tall architecture he said: "Most of our skyscrapers . . . [are] elongated packing boxes, the architecture of whose midriff sections...
...Harvard Law School where he has taught for 41 years, respected throughout the profession as the outstanding authority on the law of contracts and sales, is Samuel ("Sammy") Williston. He received the Association's medal for conspicuous service rendered in jurisprudence for the year, specifically for "monumental work in restating the law of contracts...
Edgar Wallace, whose novels, in England, are so manifold that they are called "Wallaces" (The Three Just Men, 139 others), race horse owner, tipster, playwright (The Sign of the Leopard), arrived in Manhattan, thought that he might gather U. S. criminal material for another "Wallace." Said he: "The speediest work I ever turned out was a book I wrote in a prize contest seven years ago. I started it on a Thursday and finished it on Monday. Its title? I forget. I think it was called the 'Countess Something.' " With him was his wife who told him that...
When in 1914 Tom Mercer Girdler went to work for the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. he had reason to be pleased. For famed in Pittsburgh are the Joneses and the Laughlins, controlling the greatest "family" steel company. Hard-swearing, wearing his hat at all times to be ready for emergency mill calls, Mr. Girdler in turn pleased the Joneses and the Laughlins. So well did he please them that when last year they heard outside interests, represented by Cleveland's Cyrus Stephen Eaton, were seeking General Manager Girdler, they made him president of Jones & Laughlin...
...well known that many musicians in the U. S. are out of work because of the new sound films (TIME, May 27, Aug. 19). Interviewed last week, Joseph Nicholas Weber, the Federation's president, estimated the jobless at 10,000. His Federation will spend as much as $500,000 to warn the public that Culture, as well as the livelihood of musicians, is threatened. He insisted: "We are not trying to hinder the development of any industry...