Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carr Van Anda; like his Business Manager Louis Wiley, who died last month (TIME, April 1), and his own Son-in-Law Arthur Hays Sulzberger, who married his only child Iphigene. With Son-in-Law Sulzberger at the helm, the Times, in the words of its obituary, is a monument with "meaning enough for one life...
...President Hoover's Secretary of War James William Good went to Minneapolis to help dedicate a great building. On hand for the same purpose were Congressmen, foreign delegates, seven Governors, Sousa's Band. Built with the profits from countless utility promotions and designed to resemble the Washington Monument, the 32-story structure was equipped with sumptuous living quarters for its owner, whose name was displayed in great black letters on all four sides-FOSHAY. Even more remarkable than his tower was Wilbur Burton Foshay, over whose desk used to hang the motto: "Why worry...
...exterior is done but whose interior awaits the raising of more millions. As the four men walked up the hill toward it, the pale, intense, esthetic Chancellor told his companions what the Cathedral means to him. It was his vision; it is his life work; it will be his monument. To build it, a "spiritual symbol" for the city and the University, he has spent 14 years wheedling money from charwomen and millionaires. For it he has sacrificed many things, among them the liberal principles he once held. His Board of Trustees is packed with the reactionary industrialists who gave...
...conclusion of this article you made mention of the President's intention of turning the Key into a National Monument. You did not, however, state that Dry Tortugas is one of the closed ports of the U. S. and therefor closed to all commercial or pleasure craft...
Right is Reader Moffett, nephew of Federal Housing Administrator James A. Moffett. Under Navy administration, not even airplanes were permitted to fly over closed Tortugas. But as a National Monument it will be opened to visitors...