Word: block
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...memorial is erected to me, I know exactly what I should like it to be," Franklin D. Roosevelt once remarked to a friend. "I should like it to consist of a block about the size of this [desk] and placed in the center of that green plot in front of the Archives building. I don't care what it is made of, whether limestone or granite or whatnot, but I want it plain, without any ornamentation, with the simple carving 'In memory...
...group of friends and associates carried out Roosevelt's wish and installed a 3-ft. by 6-ft. block of marble, suitably inscribed, in front of the Archives building, which is about halfway between the White House and the Capitol. But in a city where the care and feeding of monuments is a serious industry, many felt that F.D.R. deserved a more lofty and visible memorial. And so, in 1955, in the noblest Washington tradition, Congress established a commission to do something. The main developments since...
...agreed not to raise any private money. But groups of private money raisers not formally affiliated with either candidate pumped an added $10.6 million into the contest; all but $28,000 of it benefited Reagan and was used mostly for advertising. Earlier, the Federal Election Commission had tried to block the outlays, citing a statutory spending ceiling of $1,000 for independent groups. But a three-judge federal court in Washington called the limit an unconstitutional infringement of free speech. Last week the Supreme Court, in a 4-4 split vote, left that decision standing. (Justice Sandra...
Funding to pay Stephen Deutsch--the attorney who has handled other challenges to the anti-condo ordinance--had been put in jeopardy by councilor Walter J. Sullivan, who filed a motion seeking to block that expenditure...
...SALE sign on the New York Daily News, the largest general circulation paper in the country. In Philadelphia the old slogan "Nearly Everybody Reads the Bulletin "has been turned on its head. Now more people read the morning Inquirer, and the Bulletin is on the block. If buyers do not turn up soon, both the News and Bulletin may fold. Once prosperous dailies in Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland, Los Angeles and Seattle are also tottering...