Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park, the President toured his well-grown fields in the small car which he drives himself, attended church, chose Dutchess County field stone for a new post office at Poughkeepsie. Most interesting visitor of the weekend was Bronx Democratic Leader and New York Secretary of State Edward J. Flynn. Correspondents guessed that Leader Flynn was trying to line up Presidential aid for Judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney in New York's mayoralty fight...
...pavilion with its brooding Nazi eagle, on their right the flamboyant Soviet pavilion topped by excited proletarian figures, and before them a great basin of foaming fountains, flanked by assorted foreign pavilions. Massive-pillared Egypt is a heavy splash of deep red; Rumania scintillates with a faqade of rare stone from her rich mines; Austria is a building the whole front of which is a glass serving to frame a gigantic photograph at the rear, so that one seems to look not at a structure but at Alpine heights; and Norway is all beer, fur and skis. Beyond lies Italy...
...waving their hands in the air, but the President's hope "that the present great activity in those branches of physics affecting acoustics may result in the development of vastly improved aids to hearing" caused only perfunctory gesticulations. Fact is that the nation's 100,000 stone deaf who are also mutes never expect or hope to hear a sound. Their problem is not acoustics but ameliorating the disadvantages of deafness, most serious of which is difficulty in getting jobs...
...Antonio's greatest memorial, the Alamo Cenotaph, was awarded not to him but to pudgy Sculptor Pompeo Coppini. During the twelve years he called San Antonio his home, big-eared, irascible Sculptor Borglum never finished a Texas job. A hater of cheap politics since the fiasco of his Stone Mountain project in Georgia, Borglum's wrath at Texas boiled over on the subject of the Texas Centennial. Wrote he from Mount Rushmore, S. D., where he is finishing his colossal head of Lincoln: "What is it in Texas that fights and resists any plan to deal with...
...same week. I imagine that probably I will not ever be admitted to either." Mr. Broun said the main objective of the Guild is to stay in the C. I. O., added that "Mr. Green is the greatest single obstacle in the path of the labor movement. . . . The stone must be rolled away...