Word: monuments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speech. It was before this monument that President Coolidge doffed his hat, shed his overcoat; faced a biting wind, radio transmitters, 150,000 people; orated. His one pronouncement of policy was that the U. S. would not enter the World Court unless the Senate reservations were accepted in toto. He said in part...
...Since he was the only Republican Senator to be elected last week by a bigger majority than he had received in the Harding landslide of 1920, George H. Moses of New Hampshire announced that he felt like the "spared monument" of the Atlantic seaboard. Said...
...Reiner opened the symphony season there with the Consecration of the House overture, played too the early Symphony in C. In Chicago Frederick Stock led the symphony there in the first of a series of consecrated programs-played the first two symphonies and the triple concerto. In Vienna a monument was completed and the canvas shroud stripped off with fitting ceremony. In Manhattan at the Metropolitan Opera House the Society of the Friends of Music gave for its first concert of the season, the Missa Solemnis...
...Monument. Japanese hearkened with approval last week as the great Viscount Shibusawa, "the Morgan of Japan," founder of the Dai-ichi Ginko (First National Bank) of Japan, organizer of the world spanning Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japanese Mail Line), financier, industrialist, philanthropist, first "businessman" ever to be created a Japanese peer, announced at Tokyo that he will unveil the Harris Monument in the presence of U. S. Ambassador Charles MacVeagh...
...borne by the estate of the late U. S. Ambassador to Japan, Edgar Addison Bancroft at whose instigation it is being constructed. His friend and fellow Chicago attorney Henry M. Wolf (of Judah, Willard, Wolf, and Reichmann) has contributed another third. Viscount Shibusawa having made up the rest, the monument partakes of a binational character soothing to the feelings of Japanese unfriendly to the U. S. The present U. S. Ambassador Charles MacVeagh moreover greatly resembles his very generally popular predecessor, Ambassador Bancroft. The names of both men are identified with culture and position more than politics, characteristics to which...