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...Hugo Stinnes, crafty, potent, indurate,-a short while "All-Highest" of Germany-was planned a mausoleum to rival Les Invalides. Like the upstart Napoleon, he should lie in a marble crypt deep under a marble dome. In place of WAGRAM, JENA, AUSTERLITZ, PYRENEES, etc., there should be carved COAL, IRON, RAILROADS, NEWSPAPERS, etc. And all should be suffused by pale blue, pale yellow lights...
...diameter. It will be supported by Doric columns and within will be an open court. In the court, two black marble slabs shaded by a single willow tree will cover the sarcophagi of the President and Mrs. Harding. A stair will lead down to a marble-lined crypt. The memorial will stand in a ten-acre park for which A. D. Taylor of Cleveland will be landscape gardener. They hope to open the memorial by Nov. 2, 1927, which would have been the 60th birthday of Mr. Harding...
...Dean of the Chapter of St. Paul's Cathedral agreed to permit a memorial tablet to the late John Singer Sargent n the crypt, where the remains of many famous men, including Lord Nelson...
...week, his wife, Grace, his son George C., a group of his onetime subordinates (the present Admirals Charles J. Badger, George P. Colvocoresses, Hugh Rodman, Spencer S. Wood, retired; Admirals Edward W. Eberle, Hilary P. Jones, active; Marine Corps General Dion Williams) escorted his body from Arlington to the crypt of Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Cathedral, Mount St. Albans, D. C, where lies the body of Woodrow Wilson. Bishop James E. Freeman offered prayer ; the choir sang...
Last week, this tablet was unveiled in the crypt of St. Peter's. A Spanish Cardinal, Merry del Val, of the huge and solemn eyes, attended the ceremony. So, too, did Cardinal Gasquet, one of the three living British cardinals. So, too, did Cardinals Granito (Italian) and Van Rossum (Dutch). So, too, did the Swedish, the Norwegian, the Danish Ministers to the Royal Kingdom of Italy. The presence of the three ministers was not lost upon the Cardinals, for this was probably the first time since 1870 that diplomats accredited to the Kingdom of Italy have foregathered officially with...