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Since the middle of April, 63 striking gravediggers of the United Mine Workers' catch-all District 50 had stopped all burials at Cleveland's nonsectarian Lakeview Cemetery (where President James Garfield lies beneath a towering monument). Holding out for a 10?-an-hour pay raise, pickets prevented delivery of tombstones and a Memorial Day flagpole, chased off two gardeners working on a private plot. Stacked on two-by-fours in the Lakeview chapel, jammed into two crypts and the hallway were 103 coffins, awaiting interment. This week the American Legion took its hat in hand and went around...
...Labor (C.T.C.) and the Cuban Confederation of Labor is Peña. Once a tobacco worker and now a connoisseur of fine cigars, he dominates meetings of his 400,000-member Confederation with his booming, deliberate voice, his attacks on U.S. imperialismo, his praise of Russia. His chief monument is the block-long Palacio de Los Trabajadores (Labor Palace), for which President Ramón Grau San Martin allotted $772,000 to butter up the Communists after they had given him a political hotfoot...
...tropical twilight of Ciudad Trujillo, the din of traffic along the sea front had hushed. A convoy of seven limousines drew up at the foot of the obelisk (white and floodlit like the Washington Monument), and from the car with the five-starred gold license plates stepped a beady-eyed little man. Bodyguards with their Tommy guns at the ready followed him to his customary concrete bench against the sea wall. There, opposite the statue of himself and within sight of the monument reared in his honor, His Excellency, Generalissimo Dr. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, Honorable Chief of State, Benefactor...
Undergraduate opinion registered over-whelming approval for a "utilitarian" war memorial in a special Student Council poll yesterday, turning thumbs down on a monument or statue to commemorate Harvard's World War II dead...
Also on the ballot were a music center, an enlarged infirmary and the monument, but 92 independents took advantage of their write-in privileges and came up with such original suggestions as a veterans bonus and an endowed liquor establishment...