Word: monuments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousand San Franciscans attended his funeral in the Masonic cemetery, arranged at a reputed cost of $10,000 by the Pacific Club. Unfortunately, there was no money left for a monument. Last year Jesuits bought the cemetery and the remains of Norton I were removed to a vault. Last week San Franciscans, most of whom knew of the mad old man, his plumed silk hat and gold-ferruled cane only by hearsay, turned out by the hundreds to rebury him at Woodlawn Memorial Park in San Mateo County...
...Hudson at West Point one afternoon last week, the U. S. Military Academy's graduating class of 250 sat tense in full-dress uniform, rank on solemn rank. Parents, friends, generals flanked them beneath the trees. Under a flag-draped marquee at the base of the Battle Monument,. Wartime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker rose to warn of the world's unrest. Then he stepped down to hand out the white, ribbon-tied diplomas...
...electric power was about as reliable as the automobiles of 1905. He undertook to make it into the efficient thing it is today. He it was who bought and installed the first steam turbine generator ever made. It stands today in the General Electric plant in Schenectady, marked "A Monument to Progress.'' From Chicago he spread his activities out and out until they blanketed 200 neighboring cities and towns. In place of small local operating plants he built big utilities-and built them well, for they still stand, still make money. Ultimately his domain of well-managed power...
...them from drawings they seem things of astonishing beauty." To all living "children and children's children'' of Hameln, Germany, went invitations to return for a summer-long observance of the 650th anniversary of the child exodus led by the Pied Piper. On June 26 a monument to the Piper will be unveiled and dedicated. Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hiawatha of the Algonquian Ojibwas ceased to be a legend, was proved a person when the Smithsonian Institution announced that, an Iroquois, he lived between 1550 and 1600, was a cannibal by tribal custom...
Nearly two milleniums ago a man who liked monuments sent his Roman legions into the Alps and in three brisk campaigns made vassals of its 44 tribes. To celebrate that feat the Roman Senate & People raised to their first Emperor, Augustus Caesar, a great monument, on a lonely hill overlooking the Mediterranean and the shore road along which the legions marched toward Spain. Like a great stone wedding cake, the Trophy of the Alps rose 150 ft., topped by a stone Augustus. With the centuries the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals and Huns tore the great pile apart. Later still...