Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg: My late departed father always recognized Adolf Hitler as his immediate successor. . . . Thus there comes to you, O German people, from the Field Marshal's tower in the Tannenberg Monument [tomb of von Hindenburg] this call: "Rally around and stand united behind Germany's Leader! Let all the world know that an indissoluble tie firmly unites the German people...
Georgia last week began raising $100,000 to build a monument to one of its two great literary heroes, the late Joel Chandler Harris, author of the "Uncle Remus" stories.* Throughout the State's public schools, where his birthday in December is annually celebrated, collection boxes were to be distributed so that moppets with dimes, nickels and pennies could share in honoring the man who gave them the tales of the foxiness of Brer Fox and the agility of Brer Rabbit. First substantial gift came from Col. Sam Tate, president of Georgia Marble Co., who lives in a huge...
Enthusiastic Georgians last week were predicting that the money would be raised, the Harris monument erected in time for his bedridden 81-year-old widow to see it. Sure to see it were Joel Harris' children: Mrs. Edwin Camp, wife of the Atlanta Journal's sports writer "Old Timer"; Joel Jr., president of Atlanta's Rotary Club; Lucien, in the insurance business; Evelyn, public relations counsel for Southern Bell Telephone Co.; and Julian, advertising manager of the Atlanta Constitution...
...others, he left one-tenth. Under studious Ralph and socialite Herbert the World slowly lost most of its prestige and all its profits. Under able young Joseph the Post-Dispatch continued affluent and influential. When the wrecked World was sold in 1931, the Post-Dispatch remained the last monument to the liberal, crusading principles of Pulitzer journalism...
...twice her age, he laid away his affection for her in the attic of his soul where, he said later, "one stores lovely but hopeless emotions.'' Later he changed his mind, and one chilly December evening sitting on a bench near the foot of the Washington Monument he proposed. When accepted, he felt obliged to offer his resignation from the Cabinet. It was declined. In March his engagement was announced. On May 7, 1914 the Cabinet tendered him a luncheon at which he declared that his feelings were like those of the mountaineer who went out into...