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...installed in 1902 (his rollicking sons used it to haul their patient pony Algonquin to & from their quarters). U.S. Presidents had frequently been stalled in the ornate mirrored and oak-paneled cage. The only power a President had in that emergency was to ring a gong, then wait while workmen hurried to the basement and jiggled the rachitic machinery back into motion...
Last week President Truman could see progress, on at least one of his pet programs. Workmen started tearing out the old lift, proudly reported they had found a hoofprint of Algonquin in the cork tile floor. The cage will go to the Smithsonian Institution as a relic. It will be replaced by a speedy, fireproof elevator designed by White House Architect Lorenzo Winslow at Harry Truman's order. Until about Oct. 1 the Truman family will have to use the stairways...
Faith & Sweet Potatoes. In two years Mrs. Bethune's school was teaching 250 girls. By selling sweet-potato pie and ice cream to the railroad construction gangs, she raised enough money to buy the oozing city dump (known as "Hell's Hole"). Negro workmen, who took out part of their pay in tuition, built Faith Hall with secondhand bricks on 32 acres reclaimed from the dump...
...Workmen's associations should be so organized and governed as to furnish the best and most suitable means for attaining what is aimed at, that is to say, for helping each individual member to better his condition to the utmost in body, mind and property...
With the know-how under his hat and the dyes and designs in his work bag, Bailey set up a laboratory-workshop in suburban Lima. Using workmen whom he and his blonde Peruvian artist-colleague Grace Escardo trained themselves, Bailey was soon producing a great variety of cleanly designed, finely wrought textiles, lacquer-work, silver, wooden utensils, even furniture...