Word: interior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover went Virginia fishing license No. 172,523. To his fishing friend, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, went license No. 172,-524. ¶ For Senor Pablo Ramirez, Chilean Minister of Finance, President Hoover gave a White House luncheon. Senor Ramirez is touring the U. S. in the interest of Chilean nitrate...
...efficiency and organization, a President and his staff need elbow room. Last week bids were received for enlarging the interior of the Stanford-White-designed executive offices. Low bidder ($15,225) was the N. P. Severin Co. of Chicago. The basement will be renovated as office and storage space. The West embankment will be cut away to the street to permit basement windows...
...March 1924, when the oil scandals were white-hot, Oilman Sinclair was called before the Senate Public Lands Committee. Ten questions were put to him. One question was whether he had given money to Albert Bacon Fall, whilom Secretary of the Interior. Oilman Sinclair, on advice of counsel, Martin Wilie Littleton, refused to answer every question...
Sirs: In a footnote of your issue of March 18, on page 13, you speak of J. Sterling Morton as "Secretary of the Interior under Cleveland." May I ask if you are not wrong in this placing of Mr. Morton? If my recollection serves me right, Mr. Morton was Secretary of Agriculture instead of the Interior under Mr. Cleveland. In fact, Mr. Morton was the first Secretary of Agriculture, as the department was created under the administration just preceding Cleveland, who was the first president to fill that important department. In addition to being the first Secretary of Agriculture...
Architects are often heard scoffing at interior decorators. They feel that their own diligent study of ornament and design is a better basis for indoor work than the fancies of a chintzy enthusiast. In- teresting therefore is the exhibition, now at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, of modernist interiors conceived by seven architects, a landscape architect and a ceramic worker...