Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harry Parker had held various jobs around the Capitol for 17 years before he went over to the potent House Ways & Means Committee as janitor. At that time Chairman William McKinley, beaten in the 1890 elections, was packing up for Ohio. Mr. McKinley left his Bible for Harry. Years later Sereno Elisha Payne, chairman of the Committee during Taft's Administration, gave him his furniture. Oscar Underwood's legacy was a complete wardrobe including a big Stetson...
Last week to Harry Parker, having bowed and waddled through Congressional corridors for 63 years, came the finest gift of all: his $130 monthly salary as long as he lives, plus a tribute from the House of Representatives in fine oratorical style. Harry Parker, gleaming in the gallery, sporting a necktie as yellow as the pine-apple-orangeades he serves, heard himself declared faithful . . . loyal . . . cheery . . . diligent . . . courteous...
Increasingly able since he played in his first Wimbledon tournament in 1935, Budge has this year reached the peak of his form. On his way to last week's final he had lost only one set-to his Davis Cup Teammate Frank Parker in the semifinals. Included among the opponents whom he had beaten with distressing ease were Australia's Vivian McGrath, Czechoslovakia's Ladislow Hecht, France's Christian Boussus. Von Cramm had more trouble in his early matches, beating Australia's Jack Crawford in five sets and then playing a red-hot semi-final...
Wayne F. Anderson, Andover; Edward L. Burwell, Exeter; Louis R. Chauvenet, Belmont Hill; Franklin N. Cunningham, Milton Academy; Richard D. Edwards, Choate; David D. Henry, Country Day School; Spender Klaw, Loomis School; Horace G. Lunt, Kent School; David A. Park, Gunnery School; John S. Parker, Jr., St. mark's; Howard A. Reed, Andover; Elliot L. Richardson, Milton Academy; Bernard D. Shea, Roxbury Latin; Charles C. Smith, Middlesex School; Archibald H. Spaulding, Jr., Thayer Academy; Richard S. Suter, Groton; Stephen Winship, Andover...
While his sister toured Europe, Vittorio was. content to stay home studying. From the Juilliard he went to Rome on the Horatio Parker Fellowship. In April 1934 Mother Giannini died, a few months be fore Vittorio had his turn at being a sensation. At the world premiere of his first opera, Lucedia, a finicky Munich audience called him before the curtain 22 times. There was a rumor that Lucedia would be put on at the Metropolitan with Dusolina singing the title role, but this has never materialized...