Word: erection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quick-thinking Mr. Parke, now 80 and white-whiskered but still erect, still spry, remembers also trips he arranged for Presidents Cleveland and McKinley. Best of all he remembers the transcontinental funeral of California's Senator George Hearst, father of the chain-publisher, of which he still cherishes the bills for champagne, wine & whiskey; and the grand tour of the U. S. taken by Princess Eulalia of Spain in 1893, for which he laid out the itinerary. About that time he was called into consultations which led to building the first taxicab? "not for speed, but to eliminate horse-droppings...
...anonymous donor gave $50,000, commissioned a sculptor to erect a statue of Pierre Samuel du Pont, rich charitarian in Wilmington, Del., his home town. When Charitarian du Pont learned of the project, he requested the sculptor to return his photographs, said that he was "unalterably opposed...
...Smartly erect on the Peoria dock stood Secretary of War Hurley to welcome this first cargo to the Illinois cornlands. Aboard the General Ashburn, Major General Thomas Quinn Ashburn, chairman of Inland Waterways Corp., the Government's barge line, saluted his superior. Behind the General Ashburn puffed the towboat Wynoka, with another steel barge and three empty lighters. The first freight?400 tons or about 16 carloads of sisal, sugar, coffee, soap, canned goods, shipped from St. Louis at a total saving of $1,100 under the rail freight rate??was unloaded and General Ashburn insisted: ''The waterways bring...
...Behind Nanking's rococo façade, which some foreigners have helped to erect, there is working a political system, or rather a family corporation whose idea of running the country is the management and exploitation of China as the property of Chiang Kai-shek and his so-called family...
...bands, the oratorical praise. Given the exigencies of national politics, this ceremony is all very understandable, yet it is hardly the more justifiable. If Mr. Harding's friends and the remnants of the "Ohio Gang" want to do his memory honor, it is entirely fitting that they should erect a memorial, but it is hardly necessary or proper to put the official seal of sanctimony on the proceedings by the presence of President Hoover and ex-President Coolidge and the making of it into a national ceremony...