Word: wright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House and Senate Bonus vote was a triumph for at least three individuals- Democratic Representative Wright Patman of Texas who started the prairie fire in Congress, National Commander Ralph O'Neil whose American Legion blew the blaze bigger, and Owen D. Young who deserted Big Business' fire-fighting squad...
Because Frank Lloyd Wright of Spring Green, Wis. has not been appointed to the commission of architects that is designing Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition for 1933,earnest esthetes gathered in Manhattan auditoriums three nights in succession last week to thumb their long intelligent noses at the Commission,-to honor the man they consider the greatest living architect. Architect Wright, who has never considered bashfulness a blessing, presided like a benign deity over all three meetings: at the University Club, at Town Hall, at the New School for Social Research...
...time of the first Chicago World's Fair, said he, the seeds of a native U. S. architecture were beginning to sprout in the offices of Louis Sullivan, designer of the first steel frame skyscrapers. Frank Lloyd Wright was working in that office. Disregarding Sullivan and Wright, the World's Fair authorities spent all their money on a flamboyant Court of Honor which slavishly followed the Paris Exposition of 1889. Sullivan was given a Transportation Building to do in a back lot of the Fairgrounds, which was heartily damned by U. S. conservatives but promptly won a medal...
Frank Lloyd Wright was more specific...
With considerable courage, Architect Raymond Hood, a member of the despised Commission, was present. Perspiring with embarrassment, he came forward to say a few words in defense. No one admired Architect Wright more than Architect Hood, but Architect Wright had not been chosen for the committee because he was "too much of an individualist...