Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...narrow Broadway. At the City Hall, Mayor James J. Walker presented Colonel Lindbergh with the city Medal of Valor, said to him: "We are familiar with the editorial 'we,' but not until your arrival in Paris did we learn of the aeronautical 'we'." At Central Park the struggling grasses were browbeaten while 250,000 humans watched Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith pin upon Colonel Lindbergh the state Medal of Honor...
Reformed Church. The General Synod of the Reformed Church in America, at Asbury Park, N. J., for their 121st annual session, learned that they had had but $455,345.71 to spend for foreign missions last year. That was $15,406.05 (nearly 4%) less than the missions got in 1925, although they had asked a 20% increase. Grieved on this score, the General Synod was glad to hear Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman, President of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, advocate that a band of 40 Protestant pastors go as evangelists among college and university students, "those overfed...
...Opening Day" in Ontario found no riots, no tremendous exodus from the U. S., no Detroit invasion of Windsor. It did find, however, interminable queues of applicants lined up before the liquor-store doors. The first U. S. citizen to make a purchase was one Fayette Bristol of Highland Park (Detroit suburb); Mr. Bristol toted away an undetermined quantity of Old Crow whiskey...
Since riding Harry Payne Whitney's Whiskery to victory in the Kentucky Derby, Jockey Linus ("Pony") McAtee has twice broken into the news in unconventional fashion. A fortnight ago, he won a one-horse race ("walkover") at Belmont Park, N. Y. Last week, he escaped death because he wore a metal and fibre helmet. He was riding the capricious two-year-old colt, Silenus, which bolted through a temporary fence and crashed in a heap against a permanent fence at Belmont Park. While struggling to crawl out from under Silenus, Jockey McAtee received a swift kick in the helmet...