Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employes for making their decisions public and in writing for all to see. Damages are provided for injured appellants. The Department of Justice dislikes the act because it goes so far, and because a committee appointed by Frank Murphy is working on the same subject, might well produce a monument...
...down the Secretariat of the Treasury under Franklin Roosevelt, but who respects the propertied classes, got angry in the proper tradition last week. He took the Senate floor to demand passage of a bill appropriating $100,000 to buy Patrick Henry's Red Hill estate as a national monument. Senator Glass, bitter at his Government and angry with its leaders, contented himself with a snarl at an unnamed official of the Interior Department, who, he said, "does not think Patrick Henry's achievements or his fame are worth a tinker's damn" and who had "emasculated...
...speechmaking, tours to battlefields, official visits and intrigue, Count Ciano stayed up till 3 a. m. at a brilliant party given in his honor in the walled Moorish gardens of the Alcazar in Seville-a palace that was once the favored retreat of royalty during Holy Week, a national monument under the Republic-took a warship for home as Queipo de Llano denounced climbing politicos...
...year a privately built library .at Hyde Park for Franklin Roosevelt's books and State papers. Admission to the grounds: 25?. Fumed Republican Dewey Short of Missouri: "Not even immortal Shakespeare or Milton or Wordsworth would have the unmitigated gall and brazen effrontery to ask that a monument be erected to them to house their precious pearls of wisdom before their death. . . . Egocentric megalomaniac!" Minnesota's Republican Knutson suggested the papers be brought to Washington so that future statesmen might learn "how not to run a government...
...producer is American Potash and Chemical Corp., partly British-owned. Its plant at Searles Lake, in the Mojave desert in California, is a monument to U. S. chemical progress. In 1926 American Potash and Chemical, taking over a property three times bankrupt since 1896, began to research the problem of deriving potash commercially from its abundant borax properties. Directed by famed Chemist Dr. John Edgar Teeple (died: March 23, 1931), it perfected methods for producing potash-two tons of potash for each ton of borax...