Word: trowel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committeeman from New York, conferred with Mr. Coolidge in Washington. Mr. Hilles, once the Secretary of President Taft, is a power in Republican politics throughout the East. His welcome at the White House much resembles that accorded John T. Adams, Chairman of the National Committee. I ¶Taking the trowel with which George Washington had laid the cornerstone of the National Capitol, Mr. Coolidge spread the first mortar laying the cornerstone of a great monument to the first President. The memorial is being executed by the Free Masons of America, not far from Mount Vernon. Chief Justice Taft then wielded...
...Allied Prime Minister thought at that moment." He stated that he wanted to see how things were done in America in a land unfettered by traditional hatreds?a land which " is able to build with both hands instead of having to hold a gun in one hand and a trowel in the other, as in Europe...