Word: borglums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President in 1928." After the election of 1928 restored Calvin Coolidge to private life, South Dakota joined the parade of those seeking to enlist his laconic literary talent. It was arranged that he should write a 500-word history of the U. S. for Sculptor Gutzon Borglum to carve upon the granite face of Mount Rushmore, popular eminence in the Black Hills...
Last week the first two chapters of this history were made public, arranged the way Sculptor Borglum's mountain-carving crew will reproduce them. It was seen that the historian, beginning with the Declaration of Independence, had managed to reach the end of the Constitutional Connvention with an expenditure of only 75 words, thus...
Illustrated by big-chiseling Sculptor Gutzon Borglum, laconic Calvin Coolidge's 500-word history of the U. S. to be carved on the face of Mt. Rushmore, S. Dak., will be legible from three miles away (TIME, Jan. 27). Last week the design committee announced the names and events which would be hewn and gilded in live granite...
Names: possibly George Washington, Abraham Lincoln; probably Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt; certainly Calvin Coolidge, Gutzon Borglum...
...compare the Lincoln and Davis faces, one will only have to stand in the narrow connecting passage between Statuary Hall and the Rotunda where is placed the Lincoln head, rising as if half-finished out of solid stone, carved by Gutzon Borglum (donated by Eugene Meyer Jr., onetime Farm Loan Commissioner). To the sorrow of romantic historians the two antagonists of the Civil War will not gaze mournfully upon each other...