Word: erection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French are famous for their beautiful manners, but it is not entirely out of politeness that they have drawn 350,000 francs from their thin purses to erect a monument to American volunteers. The money has not come from the government, as a mere ingratiating gesture. It has come from individuals who are personally grateful to the Americans who joined the cause before the United States entered the war. At the same time it has the dimensions of a national gift, for aside from the premiers and ex-premiers. Marshals of France and cabinet members who have contributed, every regiment...
...important fact that the pacifists erect the figure of 85.8 as a means of propaganda only. When they come to urging their views on Congress they concentrate their entire effort on the purposes represented ) by the figure 13.5 for national defense...
...Catholic churches. These losses seem insignificant when compared with the great building plans of Roman Catholics. Fifteen million dollars' worth of contracts have been signed for the coming year. The Knights of Columbus have invested $1,000,000 for a site on 51st St., Manhattan, where they will erect a great building for recreation and other institutional activities...
...Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey complied with the request made by the Earl of Balfour, Lloyd George, Asquith, Bonar Law-three past and one present Prime Minister-and Lord Grey-former Foreign Secretary-to erect a memorial to the war-time American Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...dignified and quiet language, two thousand Negro women of the Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A. protested against a proposal to erect at the Capitol a statue to "The Black Mammy of the South." A spokesman carried the resolution to Vice President Coolidge and Speaker Gillette and begged them to use their influence against "the reminder that we come from a race of slaves...