Word: monumentalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Telegraph Conference next month in Brussels, the President appointed Charles Henry Shedd of Chicago (Swift & Company), Vice President John Goldhammer of the Commercial Cable Co., Manhattan) and U. S. Minister to Sweden Leland Harrison. ¶The President went to Cannon Falls, Minn., and delivered a dedicatory speech at a monument to the late Col. William Colvill, leader of the charge at Gettysburg in which the First Minnesota Volunteers lost 215 of their 262 men. "In all the history of warfare," the President said, "this charge has few, if any, equals. . . . It probably saved the Union Army from defeat...
...headlines topped reports of a furious oration by Pan-German Deputy Deutsch: "Austrians!! Today the Italians have erected at Bolzano, overlooking our frontier, a monument and an inscription which reads: Here Are The Frontiers Of Our Fatherland . . , From Here We Have Driven The Barbarian* Language, Laws and Arts...
...that not until last fortnight did Italian Minister Giacinto Auriti return to Vienna. Under the circumstances, and considering the relative potencies of militant Italy and disarmed Austria, the 289 Mayors were informed by Monsignor Ignaz Seipel that he would not (i. e., dared not) protest against the new Italian monument which dubs Austrians, "barbarians...
Curiously enough it was not belligerent Benito Mussolini who unveiled last week the wrath-kindling Bolzano monument. The Dictator was busy in Rome averting a panic and "rotating" his Cabinet (see ITALY). Therefore the limelight at Bolzano was held by a most diminutive monarch, King Vittorio Emanuele...
...made his graceful gates, balconies, doors and figured fire screens. During the War his plant was converted into a gun factory, and Edgar Brandt used his talent in metal for machines whose extreme beauty was that of cruel efficiency. When the War was over he designed the Bayonet Trench Monument near Verdun, presented by George Franklin Rand, Buffalo banker, and dedicated to the memory of the soldiers who had been killed at Verdun; he made the grating that sur rounds the perpetual fire under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris...