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...afternoon rally in the outdoor Sylvan Theatre near the Washington Monument, Senator Ernest Gruening '07 (D-Alaska) told the demonstrators, We are standing on the brink of a world war of cataclysmic proportions...
...Voted, in the House and Senate Interior Committees, to spend $2,143,150 for establishing a national monument in Nebraska's agate fossil beds, named for the rich concentrations of prehistoric mammal traces that abound in the area...
When a man has been a state legislator at 22, a judge at 24, a multi-millionaire at 35 and mayor of a metropolis at 41, what else is there left for him at 53 but to build a suitable monument to himself? For Houston's Kubla Khan, Roy ("Giltfinger") Hofheinz, it obviously had to be a pleasure dome on the order of the Great Pyramid or the Colossus of Rhodes. To Builder Hofheinz, Houston's new, $31.6 million "Astrodome" - the first covered, fully air-conditioned baseball stadium -is literally "the Eighth Wonder of the World." When...
Walking along only a few paces from Chou, Soviet President Anastas Mikoyan remained aloof and impassive as the mourners trooped with the funeral procession across Bucharest toward what is resoundingly known as the Monument to the Heroes in the Struggle to Liberate People and Homeland for Socialism. There Dej was entombed...
...great American legislators had their specialties: TVA was the brainchild of George Norris, labor reform of Robert Wagner, before the New Deal adopted them. Today, legislation comes from the White House, armed with expert testimony to ward off any amendments. None of today's Congressman will leave a legislative monument as almost all the great New Deal senators...