Word: monticello
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...Tayloe Ross and three sculptors-Sidney Waugh, Albert Stewart and Heinz Warneke-will pick a new design from those submitted by artists. But the New Deal has already picked the subject of the winning design. It must bear a portrait of Thomas Jefferson on the obverse, of his home. Monticello, on the reverse. Struck by the coincidence that Democrat Jefferson will be commemorated...
...temple at its proposed location will complete the fifth focal point of Major Pierre L'Enfant's famed 18th-Century plan of Washington, the Capitol, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and White House forming the other four. Emperor Hadrian's Pantheon was dear to Thomas Jefferson. Monticello, his own home, and the Rotunda of the University of Virginia are adaptations of its design...
...Plow it under!" advised Colonel Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News last week as the cheesemaking farmers of Green County gathered at tiny (pop. 644) Monticello, Wis. to do something about their 1,000,000-lb. limburger surplus, which was threatening to knock the bottom out of the limburger market (now 15? per lb.). Source of three-fourths of the nation's annual 11,000,000-lb. of limburger supply, Green County's farmers did not take the News's suggestion. Instead they declared a holiday. For 46 days until May 1 no new limburger will...
...Into a Monticello, N. Y., police station walked honest Andrew Bitting, dusty and broke after hitchhiking 1,500 miles from Beatrice, Neb., to confess that he had fled Monticello this summer after bumping his old car harmlessly into a bus. Andrew Bitting could not pay his $10 fine, was jailed for five days...
...vacation in Monticello, Fla. went Governor Alf Landon of Kansas. "Are you going to catch any fish?" asked a newshawk. Replied the Governor: "I've got a lot more chance than I had in the last campaign." Bedded in a Denver hospital, Oregon's eloquent Senator Frederick ("Three Long Years") Steiwer lamented the loss of "a good audience" of Senate Republicans to listen to him tell about his gall stone operation. Moaned he: "Imagine starting out, 'Now, when I had my operation,' and having only 15 or 20 around to hear!" Golfing and fishing at Miami...