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...press and political administration in his own country. "National honor" and "American interests" are some of the vague phrases which are hurled at him if he appears to pay too much attention to the intelligent demands of other countries. In the other role, the statesman is the architect of a new international order. It is his duty to examine problems in the light of their possible effect on the peace and security of the world...
...President Roosevelt's first official inspection last week. As a matter of fact the work of enlarging the Executive Offices had been done so cunningly that it would take a sharp eye to detect the changes from the outside. But on the inside there was ample evidence of what Architect Lorenzo Simmons Winslow, a $4,000-3-year employe of the National Park Service, ably assisted by Eric Gugler, consulting architect, and N. P. Severin Co. of Chicago had done with the $325.000 assigned for reconstruction...
...Graduate architects he employed by the carload. With the great building program of the New Deal well under way, there were nearly 1,700 of them hunched over draughting boards in the Supervising Architect's office. That fact has been the latest plaint of private architects against the Administration. It was a New Deal promise in April of 1934 that all Public Works projects costing over $60,000 would be awarded to private architects. Last month President Ralph Thomas Walker of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects charged that this was not being done, sent official...
...Acting Supervising Architect, Mr. Wetmore exerted practically no influence in the design of Federal buildings. He boasts that he never accepted so much as a cigar (and he is passionately addicted to them) from a contractor or competing architect. "Recently," he rumbled, "I had to send back a gallon can of New Orleans molasses that was a gift from a builder. Good molasses...
...cornerstones that bear the name of James A. Wetmore, Acting Supervising Architect, he is proudest of the one under the new post office in his native Bath. He laid that one himself, in 1931. The trowel, suitably engraved, hangs over his mantel. He will take it with him to Coral Gables, Fla., where he plans to pass the rest of his days...