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Granite, Indiana limestone, Tennessee marble and other indigenous U. S. building materials began to be routed last week to a parklike strip between the Capitol and the Potomac which Washington calls The Mall. A contract had just been signed to erect a vast $6,000,000 colonnaded building for the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Were Andrew William Mellon more the Napoleon and less the patrician, he might, as he scanned Architect James A. Wetmore's plans, have thought: "This should be named the Mellon Building." For it was under him (though not because of him) that this department...
When payments for the first lot fell due, the first Pollier company was declared unable to meet its obligations to the Treasury, but a second and ostensibly stronger company was formed to assume the debt and contract for still more sugar. This procedure was repeated several times. Meanwhile the sugar was sold, mostly in England, and the profits were salted away outside of France...
...attention from as many sources as possible. The monopoly of the University's physical development should by no means be intrusted to a single firm until it has made a strenuous effort to present a satisfactory solution of the controversial location of units. A competition for such a mammoth contract would draw forth valuable suggestions from a wide variety of competent sources. Such a procedure is the only way to procure the adequate consideration emphasized so strongly by both the report and the authoritative criticism...
...were too quick for him and he had to drop the violin-on the luggage of Max, who consequently was arrested for the theft. But Jonny was invincible. He blackjacked policemen, sent Max for the train that would start him with Anita for the U. S. where a big contract awaited. Jonny had what he wanted-the precious violin...
Last week, Mrs. Anne U. Stillman announced that she had grown tired of Panorama and would stop publishing it immediately. The entire staff, with the exception of Editor H. B. Mayer, who has a contract, was discharged. Said Mrs. Stillman...