Word: thereon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resulting hole another statue of General Lee and Horse Traveller before funds ran out. Then Lukeman, too, washed his hands of Stone Mountain, went north. Three months ago one Will Tuggle, Atlanta Justice of the Peace, attracted attention to Stone Mountain by scaling the back of Traveller and pouring thereon a pail of "colored brick water." The "brickwater" trickled through Traveller, made a large and ugly stain beneath, thereby proving Will Tuggle's premise that a crevice existed which might in time become a rift and finally a mountainside to carry the whole memorial down to the dust heap below...
...good chance that the Martin planes for Russia would soon see service. A joint board of the U. S. War and Navy Departments had not found these considerations a drawback to the Martin-Russia deal. The White House denied having any hand in the matter or expressing any opinion thereon. But Mr. Stimson was impressed by the situation in the Orient and his alone was the decision to "view with disfavor" the Martin-Russia deal. New and puzzling, however, was the reason he gave: that the U. S. cannot permit sales of war munitions to a foreign power which...
...Commissioner: "I don't like to disagree, but I saw the punch. ... It was fair. . . . Sharkey really won in my opinion. ..." Mr. Muldoon also said, as one of the trustees of the Tunney-Muldoon trophy symbolical of the world's championship, that Schmeling's name would never be inscribed thereon for a victory won on a foul...
President Hoover last week took a hand to speed the Tariff Bill to final enactment. The House and Senate conferees thereon were snarled. Major items were still in dispute. The main question was: Which wing of Congress should vote first? Each side, for political reasons, wanted the other to go first, to reserve the advantage of the last word. Chiefly at stake was the export debenture plan, approved by the Senate, disapproved by the President and the House...