Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representative Dunn described how Everett Parker, a fellow War veteran, came to his office last January to ask for food for his family, how he had gone to the Parker home at 311 D St., only four blocks from the Capitol. There Representative Dunn found "this little woman and her babies sleeping in two smutty three-quarter beds in one little room where there were no sanitary facilities; no running water, all huddled there together." Of Father Parker, who has an impediment in his speech and a hernia which prevents him from doing any heavy work, Representative Dunn declared: "This...
Last year Representatives were thoroughly embarrassed when Mr. & Mrs. Everett Parker of Newport, Tenn. settled down with their four children in the House gallery, and Mother Parker, undoing her dress, gave her youngest suck. As tactfully as possible the House doorkeeper ushered the jobless family out while Congressmen, torn between personal modesty and political respect for motherhood, felt their ears grow red (TIME, July 8). Last week the luckless Parker family again made front-page news on the floor of the House...
Representative Dunn had tried to get work or relief for the poor Parkers. The District authorities, said the Congressman, had told Parker to go back to Tennessee. When it was discovered that "this little woman was about to become a mother again," Father Parker was turned away by the Public Health Service when he asked to have his wife taken to a hospital. Finally Representative Dunn got her a permit to go to a hospital. The Mississippi Congressman continued: "She was told to go back home and there to repose herself as best she could until she came to that...
...command because he spoke of WPA "stage money" (TIME, March 9), boarded the train by previous invitation from the President. Next afternoon they conferred. After a two-hour session, the President announced that General Hagood would have a three-month leave of absence. Meanwhile in Washington Major General Frank Parker was ordered to Texas to take over General Hagood's old command...
...approves her successful fellows, contemns her somehow threatening colleagues whose brows are higher: "I would give you the Hundred Most Massive Highbrow Living Writers, the kind who creak and heave as they thrust their shoulders at the wheel, like figures in a frieze of Modern Labour, for what Dorothy Parker can do by not quite using half the strength in her little finger." U. S. readers, who have long recognized Author