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...Interior of the White House. It was understood that this decoration was to be done in colonial style?thereby ousting the French Empire furnishings which were installed during President Roosevelt's regime at a cost of $500,000, under the direction of Charles F. McKim of the famed firm of McKim, Mead & White. The proponents of the change to colonial said that it would be more appropriate and that the small beginning so far made would not destroy Mr. McKim's work as a whole. The opponents say that the White House was never typically colonial, that the French Empire...
...Hughes, age 35, was graduated from Brown University in 1909, Harvard Law School in 1912. He has been associated with the law firm of Byrne and Cutcheon; then Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft; and since 1917, he has been a member of the firm ot Hughes (Sr. and Jr.), Rounds, Schurman (brother of the now U. S. Ambassador to Berlin) and Dwight. All these firms are in Manhattan...
...Vice President of a Milwaukee manufacturing firm, long and arduous Kiwanian...
Meanwhile, the old firm of Lloyd's in London has done a very large business in the U. S. Lloyd's, world-famous for its marine insurance facilities, has also been accustomed to take all species of risks. In one well-known policy, it insured a gentleman against having twins. The result has been that, in this country, Lloyd's has been able to take much business that a state-regulated U. S. company could not accept...
Again I besiege the walls of TIME in the quest of knowledge, with firm assurance that your reply will be as prompt and gratifying as in the past...