Word: pillars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Forge and The Store will do well to retrace their steps, but Unfinished Cathedral stands foursquare by itself, needs no synopsis-guidebook. Col. Miltiades Vaiden, son of a poor blacksmith. Confederate soldier, unreconstructed rebel, has become in his old age the big man of his Alabama town. Banker and pillar of the church, he has left far behind him his wild youth and the ugly rumors that attended his rise to fortune. He is happy with his young wife, his adored only daughter, takes silent pride in his potent citizenship. Chief interest of his declining years is the building...
...Stockyards Inn, where generations of packing tycoons had dined and done their deals. Up went the Saddle and Sirloin Club, the Department of Agriculture Building, two banks and a radio station. Up went an elevated station. Aviators over South Bend, Ind. 95 mi. away, could see the tall pillar of smoke...
...that all big businessmen who visit him have only one threadbare suggestion to offer: ''Restore confidence!" That hoary cry rang frequently through the Chamber last week but never more loudly than from the Chamber's president under Herbert Clark Hoover. Silas Hardy Strawn, a stout Republican pillar, spoke on security regulation, a subject which ranked a close second to NRA as the Chamber's chief interest. The hard-bitten Chicago lawyer refused to admit that he was a Roosevelt wolf-crier but his speech was shot with such phrases as "hysterical legislation . . . unbearable if not confiscatory...
...Conway? With infinite regret, we must record that it is merely silver. Senator Thomas desires the remonetizing of silver, a desire not unnaturally shared by a number of his colleagues from the silver states of the West. Many are their converts, like Mr. Conway, who see in silver the pillar of flame which shall lead us out of the Egypt of depression...
...week, its men would go on strike in six days. Impatiently the American Federation of Labor wired President Roosevelt that Dr. Wolman's Board was wasting time trying to mediate cases of discrimination instead of settling them summarily and proceeding to arrange for collective bargaining committees. Battered from pillar to post, the Board, whose appointment "settled" the strike which threatened three weeks ago to shut down the entire industry, was in a thoroughly uncomfortable position-faced by new strikes which might turn out to be both first-and third-class shindigs according to Madam Perkins' definitions...