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...distinguished-citizen-to-whose-inspiration-the-gathering-was-due was the silver-maned Politico-Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski, first Premier of Republican Poland (1919). He it was who ordered the Wilson statue from the U. S. mountain-molder, Gutzon Borglum, and paid for it. Many years ago he was engaged to give a concert at Stanford University. Subscriptions failed to raise the necessary amount. The treasurer of the concert, an undergraduate working his way through college, presented his own note for the deficit. Paderewski returned the note to the concert treasurer, Herbert Clark Hoover...
...State. A lean six-footer, he is a graduate of Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College, was a lieutenant of infantry during the War but was kept from going overseas by powder-burned eyes. He has been a Ranger for four years, having commanded troopers in the border country. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum has selected him as the model for a proposed Ranger monument...
Another milestone in the artistic progress of Gutzon Borglum, carver of mountains, was marked last week by a clash with Calvin Coolidge and a hurried meeting of the trustees of the Mount Rushmore Memorial Association in Chicago's Union League Club...
...months ago, when Mr. Coolidge was new to the field of belles lettres, Sculptor Borglum commissioned him to write a 500-word history of the U. S., which Sculptor Borglum would then carve beside the colossal figures of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt which he is hewing upon the austere face of Mount Rushmore, S. Dak. Discovering that the first hundred years were literally the hardest. Historian Coolidge took his time over the inscription, finally submitted a few paragraphs...
Sculptor Borglum is an artist before he is a respecter of ex-Presidents. He edited the Coolidge text, added dates, omitted phrases, inserted a reference to Christianity. Historian Coolidge refused to accept the revised version, withdrew from the Memorial Association, refused last week to comment. Sculptor Borglum was less reticent...