Word: monuments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1906 the nationally owned Smithsonian Institution has had a Gallery of Art, but it is wedged into the massive, domed Natural History Building, the Institution's principal monument. Function of the new gallery is primarily to house and exhibit art owned by the Government, including presumably the immense quantities lately accumulated by the Treasury and the Federal Art Project...
...match Polish Navy week at neighboring Gdynia, President Greiser, conveniently a lieutenant in the German Navy, invited a naval delegation from East Prussia to dedicate a Danzig monument to German sailors lost in the World War. The delegation, including the Reich's Rear Admiral Fleischer and a company of marines with a brass band, arrived in Danzig last Sunday. There were speeches and a parade, all surprisingly nonbelligerent. The Poles ignored the move, and sly Danzig Nazis reasoned that if they could get away with one "foreign" naval detachment in the Free City, they might get away with more...
...Post March, in two-step time, was taken up by U. S. dancing masters and swept the world. When Sousa's own band played in Germany, his audiences clamored for "Der Vashington Pust." The piece was played, as a "typical American" work, at the dedication of a German monument to Richard Wagner. European composers wrote pieces with titles like Vorwärts-A Washington Post, as if this were a special dance like the waltz or polka. An army officer told Sousa that in a Borneo jungle he met a boy with a violin, sawing out the familiar deedle...
George Peabody Gardner '77, Trustee of the University and active in Alumni affairs died yesterday at his summer home in Monument Beach, Bourne in his eighty-third year...
...John D. Rockefeller had little schooling, but no individual has influenced U. S. education more than he. Through his second largest philanthropy, the General Education Board, he angeled Progressive Education. Prime monument to his influence is Manhattan's Lincoln School, which for 22 years has done more than any other institution to shape U. S. public schools. Last week progressive educators were abuzz about: i) an attempt to put Lincoln School quietly out of the way, 2) an attempt by a Rockefeller grandson to prevent...