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Years ago he managed to erect a plinth, as a base for his monument, in the Cobh town square. Months went by; Jerome Connor was nowhere to be seen; nothing appeared on the plinth. Years went by. One fine day a committee of Cobh councilmen referred to the empty plinth as "unsightly...
Plans for Memorial Hall were adopted by an alumni committee in 1870. The hall was planned to provide a meeting place for alumni, a dining hall for students, and a commemorative monument to students and graduates of the University killed in the Civil...
...P.M.W. was organized out of a bitter revolt against Lewis' high-handed methods, waged organizing battles with U.M.W. plug-uglies in which more than a score were killed. They erected a $250,000 monument to a tubthumping, whiskey-loving woman organizer, "Mother Jones" from Pennsylvania, whose most celebrated saying was, "Let not that traitor John Lewis ever breathe the air above my grave." "Mother Jones" turned up for all of P.M.W.'s toughest campaigns. Annually a giant memorial is held at her grave in Mt. Olive...
...Britons and Americans who fear the destruction of Rome's Christian shrines and cultural monuments, an R.A.F. spokesman said: " We are not the least interested in attacking . . . monuments, least of all religious edifices. . . . But who would have the hardihood to tell mothers of Britain and America: 'Your sons must die in greater numbers rather than risk disturbing a monument that happens to be next door to a factory making guns or parts for submarines...
...Algiers monument to the dead of World War I General de Gaulle placed a wreath. He stepped back, saluted, stood in meditation. Then he turned around, his tall figure silhouetted against the white memorial, and raised his arms in a great V. The crowd roared...