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...Rohe worked in the same office with Walter Gropius as a young man. Two years ago he followed Gropius as director of the Bauhaus. Unlike copious Gropius, who has designed innumerable buildings, van der Rohe has actually built little-possibly because of his fondness for luxurious building materials : interior walls of onyx, silk curtains 75 feet long...
Chief obstruction this time is Vial, youngish interior decorator, whose cottage neighbors Colette's on the Mediterranean shore. Here she has retired with her dog. her cats to watch the hours pass of her declining day. Swimming parties, summer diversions with her neighbors fill whatever gaps tending her animals, her garden, or her memories may leave. But Vial...
...disastrous effect of the first debate on Mr. Lincoln. There is an early copy of Congressman Lincoln's speech on the Mexican War, delivered in 1848 and several reproductions of early pictures. Among the Lincoln documents are an appointment, letters to the Secretaries of State and of the Interior and an early document in his own hand...
Last week President & Mrs. Hoover held the fifth and largest of the White House winter receptions. Present were officials of the Treasury, Post Office, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce and Labor Departments. Mrs. Hoover appeared wearing a white and blue dimity gown modeled in the fashion of 1870 and copied from one of her mother's photographs. 41, President Hoover busied himself with his anti-hoarding campaign (see below). ¶ Entertained at a White House dinner was Speaker of the House John Nance Garner uncomfortable in a new dress suit, together with Henry Ford, Walter P. Chrysler, William Wallace Atterbury, Melvin...
Convicted of accepting a $100,000 bribe from Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny while he was Secretary of the Interior, Prisoner No. 6991 has behaved himself well, should, with good time off, get out May 8. Still unpaid is his $100,000 fine. If he is unable to pay it, he will have to remain another 30 days in prison and take the pauper's oath. Prison medical facilities, the Board of Parole felt, were adequate for treating the heart trouble, chronic tuberculosis, chronic pleurisy and arthritis which many of his friends expected to kill Prisoner No. 6991 before...