Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon the S. S. Leviathan, steaming toward the U. S. last week, came a tall slender man with brown hair, blue-gray eyes, and a wise, constructive reticence. Safe on the high seas from reporters, Seymour Parker Gilbert lazed and rested from his labors as Agent General of Reparations although the duty of his steady mind is to keep the fiscal balance of a continent, there danced in his head, last week, jocund plans for Christmas at his home and birthplace, Bloomfield, N. J. Old college chums from Rutgers and Harvard Law would make merry with him. He would tower...
...improvers, Christian temperance women, clubwomen, business women, professional women, housewives, "home girls" and a few common everyday women?representatives, in short, of the 34 women's organizations for which the National Council of Women aims to be a guide and interpreter, met last week in Manhattan. President Valeria H. Parker, a doctor of medicine, sex-hygienist and flood relief worker, presided over them all and was reelected...
President Parker, looking back, claimed for the Council more or less credit in the following U. S. social and political developments: votes for women, abolition of legally segregated prostitution, the U. S. Children's Bureau (Department of Labor), juvenile courts, dress reform, Prohibition...
Looking forward, President Parker cried...
Before a super-nationalist rally at Berlin, General Ludendorff warmed up by declaring that the Jews, the Jesuits and the Freemasons "robbed Germany of certain victory during the World War." Then, as his poise snapped, he shouted: "Even today the supernational [Allied] powers rule Germany through S. Parker Gilbert [Agent General for Reparations] and Mgr. Eugenio Pacelli [Papal Nuncio to Germany] and the Republic's head makes no use of his authority...