Word: monumentalize
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What made Rancher Beery, and all his neighbors, strap on their six-guns was a sudden executive order by Franklin Roosevelt, turning the entire Jackson Hole valley (221,000 acres) into a national monument, in the care of a man whom Western cattlemen loathe extraordinarily: Interior Secretary Harold Ickes...
Said Banker-Rancher Felix Buchen-roth: "It may be a monument to Ickes, but it's a tombstone...
Harold Ickes had stuck to his guns. All ranchers, said he, who have used Jackson Hole for grazing may do so until they die. The procedure in setting up Jackson Hole Monument was the same as that followed in creating other national monuments. Now the time had come to drive the cattle to the summer ranges. On their way to the Grand Teton's slopes the ranchers kept a sharp eye out for them dang Federals. No Government officers showed up; gun play was unnecessary...
...monument to U.S., British, Russian or Polish diplomacy was the climactic culmination of errors which brought last week's "suspension" of relations between the Russians and the Poles. The Poles had capped their old enmity toward Russia by supporting the Nazi propaganda story that 10,000 missing Polish officers had been found in mass graves in the forest of Katyn. Herr Goebbels said the Russians slaughtered them. Long distrust of Russia had conditioned the Poles to believe the German account. Without notifying either Britain or Russia, they fed the flames of anti-Soviet suspicion by demanding an International...
...Record. In Seattle, Chief Petty Officer T. Kelly, home at last from the South Pacific, leaned a ladder against a monument to the war dead, climbed to his own name, with a paint brush set the record straight...