Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nineteen guests last week went off with President Hoover for a Friday-to-Tuesday outing at his Shenandoah National Park camp. Many of them went mountain-climbing. President Hoover kept behind six of them-members of the Federal Farm Board-to tell him what the Board had accomplished in its month-and-a-half existence...
...Magnanimous, too, last week, was immaculate Grover Whalen, Manhattan's debonair chief policeman. On Park Row one Prescott Robinson, ebullient young surface car trackwalker, "gave the bird" (burbled offensively with fat tongue in loose lips) to Commissioner Whalen's gleaming motor. Detective Carl Lynn leaped from the Commissioner's side, arrested the burbling trackwalker, haled him to police headquarters. Like Minister Liaptcheff Commissioner Whalen "refused to prosecute...
Merger of the National Park Bank and Chase National Bank of New York (TIME, June 24) went into effect. Celebrating the event, the merged bank (Chase National), now having 31 offices, three abroad and 28 in New York City, announced that it now has $242,069,453 of capital funds (surplus and undivided profits...
President Hoover last week spent four days at his White House desk and three days at his Shenandoah National Park camp. For work he held two Cabinet meetings, attended an American Legion baseball game, listened to Senator George Higgins Moses talk New England politics (see p. 16), accepted the credentials of Don Ernesto Argueto as Minister from Honduras, received Congressmen and Senators praying for appointment favors, endurance flyers, Filipino businessmen, members of the Order of Railroad Conductors...
...construct a plant at Cumberland Falls, Ky. Out went a $250,000 stock transaction item between Cumberland Co. and other Insull companies ''to pay for option, engineering reports, license and rights." Out also went a $250,000 pledge by the power company to the Kentucky State Park Commission to develop the property about Cumberland Falls into a park. Kentucky's only Republican high official. Governor Flem D. Sampson, had engineered the Cumberland Falls deal, had signed the contract. Kentucky's Demo-cratic Attorney-General James William Cammack cried tritely: "What a crime . . . that the rights...