Word: monumentalize
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...such talk came from a man in the moon, but from you ... this is too much. Do you not know the ends to which the defenders of this decrepit old society will go? ... Are you waiting to see them kill us first so that you can build us a monument? . . . Aside from the fate that stares Bart and me in the face, I would not care to know that labor has not the courage to face the battle with a showing of solidarity that will force the hand of the implacable enemy to desist from what it plans...
...Salomon was a Jewish banker in Philadelphia. To him Jews wished to erect a statue in Madison Square, Manhattan. When the Municipal Art Commission refused to approve the statue, the cry of race prejudice was raised and Revolutionary history was retold to demonstrate Mr. Salomon's right to a monument. It was the Jewish "contention that Mr. Salomon had loaned to Robert Morris much of the money which Mr. Morris later contributed to the Continental Government; it was the Commission's contention that Mr. Salomon's exploits were largely legendary...
Then mother and son were driven up Pennsylvania Ave., as 150,000 people became hoarse. President Coolidge and another 150,000 were waiting in the vicinity of the Washington Monument. Radio Announcer Graham McNamee was telling the rest of the land: "Here comes the guard of honor ahead of Lindbergh's car. . . . The cavalrymen with drawn sabres make a dashing picture. . . . Here's the boy. . . . He comes forward unassuming, quiet, a little stoop in his shoulders. . . . Now I will turn the microphone to the reviewing stand, where President Coolidge and the boy Lindbergh stand quietly together...
Through the London Times came an appeal from Alexandros Philadelphus, onetime "director of the Acropolis and ephorus of the antiquities of Attica," addressed to Great Britain. It read: "As you know, our grand national monument, the great temple of the Goddess Athena, the immortal Parthenon, was deprived more than a century ago of its ornaments, those superb sculptures which constitute the invaluable treasure in your great national museum...
...Anti-Saloon League founders, the Rev. Howard Hyde Russell may be isolated as "the Founder." Last week indeed he dedicated a monument commemorating a temperance speech made by Abraham Lincoln in 1846. The monument's inscription contains, in large capitals, the name of Abraham Lincoln, in slightly larger capitals the name of Howard Hyde Russell, described as "Founder of the Anti-Saloon League...