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...member of the Maryland legislature, Mr. Lewis outraged Conservatives by proposing an unheard of thing, a workmen's compensation law. In 1912, as a member of Congress, he made express companies frantic by drafting the law under which the U. S. now has a parcel post system. President Wilson appointed him to the Tariff Commission. He declined reappointment in 1925 because President Coolidge demanded that he sign an undated resignation...
...State of Pennsylvania refused to pay on time for a series of heroic statues Barnard had designed for the Harrisburg Capitol, he took a bicycle trip through southern France, assembled an extraordinary collection of medieval sculpture. Selling most of it to dealers, he made enough to keep his 15 workmen employed in his huge studio near Paris. With what he did not sell, he started the finest private collection of Gothic and Romanesque sculpture in the U. S. This he placed in a private museum next to his studio in upper Manhattan, opened to the public. Later John D. Rockefeller...
Next day slumbering Stresa on the blossom-dotted rim of Lago Maggiore sprang to life. Excited Fascist workmen ripped up the main street from end to end. They had all but demolished the stuffy little station when an architect front Rome arrived, his mind full of modernism and marble. Snappily accoutred Fascist militiamen and plainclothes agents in all conceivable disguises arrived to put Stresa and its basking tourists under careful scrutiny. "Now that Hitler has defied the world, and Nazi agents are kidnapping and even murdering small fry abroad," said a Fascist corporal of militia grimly, "who knows what outrage...
California holds its Charter Day exercises in a handsome open Greek Theater on the first slope of the hills which rise from San Francisco Bay. Early one morning last fortnight workmen groomed the Theater for an overflow crowd. At the foot of the slope, swishing academic gowns trailed an odor of mothballs through Faculty Glade. Class banners clustered about the base of the 300-ft. white granite Campanile. Well in time for the 10 o'clock procession, Herbert Hoover, who had driven up alone from Palo Alto, arrived with his gown over his arm. To friends he confided...
Such his thoughts as he labored in the shipyard. And the old sea town and the English workmen were none the wiser...