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...tall casement window, the spry Welshman dramatically flung the window wide. "I am going to count three," said he with his eye on the second hand. "After the third count listen, listen for all you're worth!" One, two, three-straining ears caught from far away, from a battlefield on the other side of the English channel, a faint sound pitched awesomely deep. "That, gentlemen," said the Prime Minister, "was Hill No. 60. Within a few minutes I think we shall have it." Captured twice by Germans, thrice by Britons, famed Hill No. 60, scene of the bitterest fighting...
...This cane," bellowed Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley on Boston Day last week, in a voice audible for blocks along Boston's Tremont Street, "is one of three known as Constitutional Big Sticks. Three canes were cut from an elm tree which grew on the spot [battlefield of Lexington, Mass.] where the movement for the establishment of American liberty had its inception. These canes are given to the.- three foremost defenders and upholders of liberty and the Constitution in America: William Randolph Hearst, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and Osee Lee Bodenhamer, national...
...Passed a bill creating a Colonial National Monument comprised of lands yet to be determined, but including parts of Yorktown Battlefield and lands & buildings in and around Williamsburg, Va. ¶ Passed the bill directing the Secretary of the Interior to investigate and report on the advisability of creating an upper Mississippi National Park...
...public utilities. Monumental Ulen works are the Shandaken Tunnel through the Catskills (longest - 18 mi. - - hydraulic tunnel in the world, five miles longer than the Swiss Simplon tunnel), finished in 1922, and the Marathon Dam, completed last fall, supplying water for the city of Athens, and overlooking the famed battlefield where the Greeks defeated the Persians in 490 B. C. The dam is faced with marble from Mt. Pentelicon (which also supplied the marble for the classic temples of the Acropolis) and the water from its reservoir travels a portion of its route to Athens via the old Hadrian Aqueduct...
Abraham Lincoln left later Presidents little to say at Gettysburg. President Hoover, whose personal reverence for the 16th President is deep and true, nevertheless fulfilled a promise given Pennsylvania's far-sighted Governor Fisher in California before election by traveling to the battlefield to deliver a Memorial Day address. For the first time a grey-garbed Confederate Veteran (William Haines, 93, cavalryman) sat on the platform with the President...