Word: borglum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carl Raymond Gray, U. S. Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl, Author Bess Streeter Aldrich (American Magazine, Ladies Home Journal), General John Joseph Pershing (LL.B. and onetime military instructor, University of Nebraska), Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes (lawyer in Lincoln, 1887-94). Sculptor-Painter-Author-Politician John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (went through the public schools). Author Willa Sibert Gather (B.A., U. of Neb.), Baseball Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, Cinemactor Harold Clayton Lloyd (born in Burchard, Neb.). The State has yet to nominate its two most famed sons for the Nebraska niches in National Statuary Hall at Washington...
...been known in recent artistic history than that which has frustrated the attempts of Southern interests to carve an everlasting memorial to the Confederacy's heroes, Lee, Jackson, Davis and their men, on the awesome bluff of Stone Mountain, Ga. The dismissal of famed and fiery Sculptor Gutzon Borglum and the engaging of Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman ushered in a period of vacillation and chaotic nagging which left the project at a virtual standstill (TIME...
Last week Sculptor Borglum announced that his return to the airy Stone Mountain scaffoldings was likely, that the Memorial Association had been penitent, urgent. "I was dismissed," he said, "because it was charged that I dominated the entire project. I do not deny this. But I am going back and dominate the project without interference...
...more than a million, was in debt more than half a million. Twelve years had been allowed for the carving of an adamantine, timeless legend. They had elapsed. The result was only a hugely chipped General Lee, almost insulting in its immense ineptitude. "In 17 months," he declared, "Mr. Borglum produced the first model, all working models necessary to that date, removed 25,000 tons of granite, erected the hoisting engine, built the studio, installed the projecting lens, built the stairway, completed the head of General Jackson, roughing out the head of President Davis ... at a cost...
...Sculptor Borglum referred, last fortnight, to Sculptor Lukeman's work as "the hole blown in the mountain since my absence...