Word: monumentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major moves by which Benito Mussolini jacked his country above the status of a second-class power was to put the lira, previously a wobbly joke currency, squarely on gold (TIME, Jan. 2, 1928). Soon at Pesaro the Lira Monument was reared, cut deep with II Duce's promise to defend the gold lira to the last drop of Italian blood. Since then nothing has occurred to convince the Dictator that any other statesman who inflates, debases or trifles with currency values is not dead wrong. Last week with U. S. President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Baldwin and Japanese...
...stone-masters," Attilio stands head and shoulders above his brothers as an individual artist. A classical conformist, he is a master of the human form. His figures have an impressive, if somewhat posed, nobility, and they are simply conceived and carried out. He designed Manhattan's imposing Maine Monument at Columbus Circle, its Firemen's Memorial on Riverside Drive, notable for its expressive woman & child group. One of his best works is the pediment on the Frick house in Manhattan, a poetic and satisfying solution of the problem of putting a man and a tree into a segment...
...Scrawling his signature on a stack of bills, Franklin Roosevelt came to one, signed, passed on without ceremony to the next and the next. The bill in question appropriated $10,000 for the preparation of a site and authorized the erection at private expense of a monument to Grover Cleveland, a Democratic President who, in an earlier depression, vetoed every bill he thought was unconstitutional, fought bitterly with Congress to maintain the gold dollar, and declared that "though the people support the Government the Government should not support the people." ¶ The Treasury presented the President with figures...
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...Reeve was my father and many a time I have heard him say: "There is one woman of the U. S. to whom a monument ought to be erected and I hope that it will be done some day." And then he would tell me the story of the first ovariotomy [performed by Dr. Ephraim McDowell on Mrs. Jane Todd Crawford in 1809 (TIME, June 10)]. If he knew the name of the patient I do not recall that he said it, but I remember well his admiration of Dr. McDowell...