Word: boylan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John Joseph Boylan, 70, Tammanyite, for 16 years U. S. Representative of the docks, warehouses, clothing factories, theatrical lodging houses on the west side of midtown Manhattan; who conducted an unsuccessful one-man campaign to brighten the Congressional Record by headlines, cartoons and comic strips; after long illness; in Manhattan...
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...Promptly at the opening of every session, with patience comparable to Senator Norris' in getting the Lame Duck Amendment, Representative Boylan would introduce a resolution to build a gigantic memorial to Statesman Jefferson that could hold its own with the Lincoln Memorial at the west end of the Mall. Promptly every session it was tabled, until the 73rd Congress found itself with buckets of New Deal money to spend. Quickly Representative Boylan's Jefferson Memorial bill was passed, an expenditure of $3,000,000 authorized (but not appropriated) and a commission set up to draw plans, with Congressman...
Just as easily he persuaded Congressman Boylan and the other gentlemen of the Jefferson Memorial Commission that he would be an ideal architect for this too. Architect Pope's design for the $9,000,000 Mellon Gallery appeared in the newspapers last January. It showed a strong resemblance to the Pantheon at Rome, plus two long, windowless wings ending in Ionic porticos. Modernists winced, but most citizens felt that with his own money Mr. Mellon had the right to build any kind of building he chose. Few weeks later, plans for the Jefferson Memorial were disclosed, and the storm...
...Cherries are short-lived trees," added Congressman Boylan...