Word: erects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unheralded, unawaited, after a secret start from Berlin, the Bremen dropped from the sky above Dublin on March 26. Three head-erect Germans stepped from her cabin: Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, monocled Prussian nobleman, owner of the plane; Capt. Hermann Koehl, stolid flyer from Berlin, proud possessor of a heroic war record; Arthur Spindler, co-pilot and mechanic, who had been Capt. Koehl's sergeant during the War. They announced themselves on the way to the U. S., determined to be the first to make the hazardous wind-bucking passage East to West...
...erect, military figure made haste to Malacanan Palace, official residence of the Governors General. A knot of small, smart, brown-skinned men-Filipino politicians-were waiting to shake hands. Col. Stimson also greeted some other small, smart, brown-skinned men who were to be his servants. "Oh, yes," he said, as a chef came forward. "Yes, I know Ming. How are you, Ming...
...Passed a resolution authorizing the American Federation of Labor to erect a statue to Samuel Gompers, in Washington...
TIME, Dec. 26 issue, reporting the Jewish Tribune's plan to erect a statue to the late Oscar Strauss, said that only two public statues of Jews existed in the U. S.-those of Poet Heinrich Heine and onetime Mayor Nathan Barnert of Paterson, N. J. Since have come information of statues to Alfred Benjamin in Kansas City, Mo., Israel Marks in Meridian, Miss. (LETTERS, Jan. 23 ?. 30) and, now, to Nathan Morris in Indianapolis...
...place the bones of Christopher Columbus in a $4,000,000 memorial lighthouse. To erect the lighthouse in a park near Santo Domingo* already set aside by the Government of the Dominican Republic. To offer $50,000 in prizes for lighthouse designs. Such were details of a project announced, a fortnight ago, by the Governing Board of the Pan-American Union, at Washington. Already the Dominican Government has appropriated $300,000. The rest will be raised by general appeals throughout the Americas...