JUDICIARY: Temple for Justice

Wreckers were last week invited to bid on the razing of two whole blocks of Washington buildings opposite the U. S. Capitol. Four apartment houses, 40 garages, and the old brick building where Congress met after the Capitol was burned by the British during the War of 1812, are to be destroyed. On the two blocks is to rise Architect Cass Gilbert's $9,740,000 edifice for the U. S. Supreme Court.

Last week Architect Gilbert showed the nation what he thought the Court's new home should look like: a classic temple of white stone 385...

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