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...Railway porters just call it Hlanfair...
...choosing as architects dapper, apple-cheeked, Finnish-born Eliel Saarinen and his broad-shouldered, twinkling son Eero, the Tabernacle Church got a pair of modernists whom even conservative architects respect. Best known for his rose-granite railway station at Helsinki, Eliel Saarinen recently won (with Son Eero and Son-in-law Robert Swanson) the national competition for the $2,500,000 Smithsonian Gallery of Art, which, if built, will be Washington's first modern Government building. Now president of Cranbrook Academy of Art near Detroit, Architect Saarinen exerts a widening influence over U. S. building...
...countries where life was at a low ebb. He had left the cruiser Tuscaloosa at Barcelona, had driven through the mountains to Le Perthus, where only 23 months ago masses of defeated Loyalists jammed the narrow roads trying to reach the border. When he arrived at Lyon a special railway car was waiting. The diplomatic Admiral, long-faced, forceful, tactful, had come a long way to enter the world's most perplexing diplomatic labyrinth. It was a France in which most Frenchmen believed that their fate depended on a British victory, though a big section of the Government believed...
...Forest of Compiègne Joan of Arc surrendered to the Duke of Burgundy, Louis XVI received his Queen Marie-Antoinette and Napoleon met his bride, Marie-Louise of Austria. In a railway car in the Forest of Compiègne, 22 years ago last Nov. 11, a delegation of Germans signed an armistice dictated by France's Marshal Ferdinand Foch. In that same railway car, 2419D, at 6: 50 p.m. last June 22, a delegation of Frenchmen signed an armistice dictated by Germany's Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel...
...goings-on, than no Jesse and no Houston." Jesse Jones operates now in a higher, brighter sphere. Power is his passion, but now he is equally passionate over the benevolent use of that power. If he drives a hard bargain, as he did last week over Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway Co., it's in the interest of the Government-which is supposedly all the people. He is tough, shrewd, tricky as ever. And the list of Jones-directors, Jones-managers, Jones-chairmen, Jones-presidents grows & grows. All this he is forgiven, because the men he picks make good...