The first time Calvin Coolidge met Gutzon Borglum ... envisioned for an Entablature to accompany the portraits on Rushmore. Coolidge's goodwill was helpful in the effort to raise funds for ...

Illustrated by big-chiseling Sculptor Gutzon Borglum, laconic Calvin Coolidge’s 500-word history of the U. S. to be carved on the face of Mt. Rushmore, S. Dak., will be legible from three miles ...

Nationally, Calvin Coolidge was president, Mount Rushmore was dedicated and the Scopes Monkey Trial made waves from a Tennessee courthouse. In Birmingham, an April fire destroyed the second floor ...

Mount Rushmore is one of the United States' most ... After negotiations with President Calvin Coolidge, the project was eventually approved in 1925. Borglum and 400 men (and a few women), many ...

He decides on Mount Rushmore as the best site ... The old Jefferson head is blasted away. Coolidge having died the year before, Borglum announces in Hearst newspapers that text for the Entablature ...