Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's vacation has made him even more interested in the plane's future. He has seen the efficiency of the air mail. The pet collie dog recently (TIME, Aug. 1) presented to him made the trip from Detroit by airplane. There is a plane at Custer State Park, S. Dak., ready to rush the President to Washington in any emergency. So, remote from centres of population, the President has more than ever realized the airplane as a factor in decreasing distance...
...Coolidge motored from Custer State Park to Newcastle, Wyo., attended the wedding of Miss Dorothy Mondell, daughter of one-time Representative Frank Wheeler Mondell, Republican floor leader, to Alexander W. Gregg, chief counsel for the Internal Revenue Bureau. Mrs. Coolidge safely completed her 70-mile trip through one of the heaviest storms of the summer...
...resultant controversy developed the following points: Organ experts testified that vibration was injurious to organs, that organs in Manhattan (where traffic vibration is not inconsiderable) were kept harmonious only by weekly tunings. Colonel Hodges also objected to the highway on general principles, remarking "we are not running a public park up here, we are trying to run a school for military instruction." Colonel Greene held to his written permit and threatened to sue the Federal Government, since the State had appropriated $250,000 for the highway and spent $3,000 in preliminary work. It appeared that the present chief highway...
...weighing 150 pounds, who played centre on the Cornell University football eleven, who was highest in scholastic standing in the 1927 class at Cornell College of Architecture. His name: Michael Rapuano, 23, of Syracuse, N. Y. His landscape design for a museum of fine arts in a municipal park was the best of the 1927 competition...
...Grove Street Theatre in Greenwich Village ordinarily houses productions that receive only condescending notice from critics and moral encouragement from art societies. Now it has something that will probably attract business. It is a revue that "does" Manhattan, from the yeggs of the Bowery to the shades of Gramercy Park aristocrats. In its course it sings sentimental ballads, burlesques the Gay Nineties in the lank, laughing person of Eleanor Shaler, stops off at a night club long enough to see a vivid, dramatic voodoo dance in silhouette, trails off into close harmonies and ends up about a mile ahead...