Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baldwin, of Mount Kisco, New York...
...Manhattan where, over public protest, the world's largest bridge was last year named for Washington and where a scandal in connection with the sale of Washington seals has already occurred, a project was on foot to erect a replica of Mount Vernon in Bryant Park. When the Metropolitan Museum of Art removed from its walls to the basement Emanuel Leutze's painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware, popular clamor compelled it to lug the massive picture up again for temporary hanging in its American Wing...
...Baldwin of Mount Kisco, New York...
...expense money. To represent the country he appointed a delegation of five: Charles Gates Dawes, Ambassador to Great Britain, Hugh Simons Gibson, Ambassador to Belgium, Norman Hezekiah Davis, onetime Under Secretary of State. Claude Augustus Swanson, Senator from Virginia, and Mary Emma Woolley. president of Mount Holyoke College. They were called "the best practical pacifists available." Mr. Dawes resigned as a delegate to become president of Reconstruction Finance Corp. and President Hoover replaced him with Secretary of State Stimson as chairman of the delegation...
While Professor Compton is having a high time abroad, Dr. William Francis Gray Swann, president of the American Physical Society and director of Philadelphia's Bartol Research Foundation, will take to the top of Mount Washington or Pike's Peak a cosmic ray "telescope" whose construction he revealed last week. It consists of a lead cylinder. At each end is a hollow steel sphere filled with nitrogen compressed