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Educational as well as spectacular was the costume of large, active Anna Wilmarth Thompson Ickes who appeared as a Zuni Indian matron. Long a student of Southwestern Indians and author of a book about them called Mesa Land, the Republican wife of the Secretary of the Interior knew exactly what to wear...
...Federal expenditures that put the Government in competition with private business and frighten off the first faint flutters of returning business confidence. The other school of New Deal thought favors spending Federal funds on a grand scale for maximum social results. To the latter school belongs Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, New Dealer pure-of-heart and dour-of-tongue, who believes in "letting the Government do it" rather than in the Moffett philosophy of "let business have a chance first." Last week these two basic policies collided amid a shower of New Deal sparks...
Repairs and alterations are being made in the house, and they will be completed before the end of December. The house is being connected with the central heating system of the University, the old furnaces are being removed, and a large part of the interior is being redecorated...
...pounds sterling, as Mrs. Holden had remarked to Hutchinson at the time of the gift, was not sufficient to complete the Chapel, and so, after the foundations, walls, roofing and plastering had used up the funds, a year elapsed before sufficient money could be raised to finish the interior woodwork, pews etc. Whether Mrs. Holden gave the extra funds or not, is not known...
...interior, according to bills and contemporary writers was quite handsome, with carved oak pews or stalls running along the sides of the building in the English Collegiate manner. At the East end was the President's seat with desk or pulpit. On this, placed on a rich piece of "China Carpet," was the folio bible given by Andrew Oliver, class of 1724 and later Lt. Governor of Massachusetts. Records show that the Overseers had two pews at the back designed especially for their use. Over the "Great Door" at the West end was perhaps an organ gallery, evidences of which...