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...first U. S. job was carving belt buckles on Civil War monuments in a Boston atelier. He went to Manhattan in 1911, started work under Paul Manship, also a hewer of the heroic. He did the actual carving on the Manship memorial tablet to J. Pierpont Morgan (Metropolitan Museum), worked on the surface texture of Manship's head of John Davison Rockefeller. By the time he left Manship to open a studio of his own he was earning $100 a week, was a naturalized citizen...
Over the barber shop, on the wall against which Student Princip leaned, his fellow townsmen of Sarajevo have erected a handsome plaque: "ON THIS HISTORIC SPOT GAVRILO PRINCIP HERALDED THE ADVENT OF LIBERTY ON ST. VITUS DAY, JUNE 28TH 1914." In the cemetery outside the town is a tablet to "THE HEROES OF ST. VITUS DAY," Shooter Princip, Nedielko Cabrinovic, whose clumsily thrown bomb glanced harmlessly off Archduke Franz Ferdinand's shoulder earlier in the day, and Trifko Grabez who helped Princip and Cabrinovic get their weapons from Serbia...
Bugles hushed 5.000 persons assembled in the hills near Ashland, Ky. last Sunday afternoon. Kentucky's Governor Ruby Laffoon bade them all a deep, drawling welcome. His wife uncovered a bronze tablet. And a rude little log cabin was officially christened "Traipsin" Woman...
...President shortly afterward imposed his tenth veto on a bill to place a bronze tablet bearing a design of the Congressional Medal of Honor on the grave of Brigadier General Robert H. Dunlap, U. S. M. C., in Arlington Cemetery. His objection: it established a precedent contrary to Cemetery rules and constituted a discrimination against other holders of the decoration buried at Arlington. ¶ The President signed a municipal bankruptcy bill by which bankrupt towns and cities may, with the consent of a Federal District Court and 75% of their creditors, compromise their debts to get back on their financial...
Last week President Roosevelt sent a special message to Congress reminding it of the old mace and the new tablet and making the following suggestion: "It would be a gracious act for the U. S. to return this historic mace to Canada at the time of the unveiling of the tablet. The mace is a token of representative government established at York nearly a century and a half ago. . . . Since the agreement of 1817 the two countries have by common accord maintained no hostile armaments on either side of their boundary; and every passing year cements the peace and friendship...