Word: lukeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After an absence of 69 years, Jefferson Davis was last week ready to re-enter the U. S. Capitol as a representative of Mississippi. In heroic bronze he will take his place in Statuary Hall. Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman has finished the figure-erect, head high, eyes front, topcoat flowing from his shoulders, a pair of eyeglasses held loosely in his right hand-the President of the Confederacy entering an important situation with none of the air of a Lost Cause...
...immensity, a modeler of monuments out of mountains, Sculptor Gutzon Borglum is doubtless pleased to reflect that his name will last as long as the hills on which he has carved his titanic conceptions. Not before Stone Mountain, Georgia (where he started the memorial now being finished by Augustus Lukeman) and Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota (where he is now engaged in excavating 420-ft. images of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt), crumble into dust, can Sculptor Borglum be entirely forgotten. It should require at least 500,000 years for this to happen. It became known last week that the huge stone...