Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within the past six months in France a great equestrian statue of Marshal Foch was unveiled at Cassel, a monumental figure of Marshal Joffre at Chantilly. On both occasions, art critics and a large section of the French press howled in derision, said that the monuments were blots on the landscape. The French Ministry of Beaux Arts suddenly sided with the critics last week, announced that no contract would be awarded, all designs and models would be returned, in the contest for a monument to perpetuate the memory of the Battle of the Marne. Reason: there is no living sculptor...
Last week the War Department forbade the sort of interment that Mrs. Wiley wanted. She wished to erect a great monument. Regulations forbid any grave marker for enlisted men other than a plain stone of standard design. So Mrs. Wiley picked Rock Creek Cemetery near Washington for the burial. Then the War Department changed its Arlington rules for her. In the section called "Field of the Dead" she last week buried her husband with full military honors. On the plot she will put a large memorial, engraved: "Father of the Pure Food Laws...
...suggestion that Mr. Chrysler's tower was slipping from his grasp. They promised a statement "qualifying the fact of Mr. Chrysler's owner-ship." But weeks slipped past and no statement came out, Mr. Chrysler apparently being too preoccupied with that which makes him rich to worry about his monument...
...peak is dedicated, by grateful fellow citizens, in recognition of the public citizenship of Bernarr Macfadden, apostle of health, in his spectacular influence in arousing the nation to the benefits of life in nature's great outdoors." Proudly reported the Sacramento Bee last week-"CLIFF WILL BECOME HEALTH MONUMENT. . . . About 200 New Yorkers will attend the rites...
...Passed a bill creating a Colonial National Monument comprised of lands yet to be determined, but including parts of Yorktown Battlefield and lands & buildings in and around Williamsburg, Va. ¶ Passed the bill directing the Secretary of the Interior to investigate and report on the advisability of creating an upper Mississippi National Park...