Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Farrell '31, J. P. Faude '31, W. W. Foshay '31, R. C. Glenn '30, L. H. Gulick '31, H. M. Hartnett '31, J. W. Henderson '31, Wayne Hobbs '31, O. C. Johnson '31, A. R. B. McGuire '30, James Marshall '31, T. I. Nido '30, S. P. Park '29, F. A. Pickard '29, R. G. Pope '31, G. S. Robinson '31, W. J. Salmon '30, D. T. Saunders '30, W. A. Wilkinson...
Great was the rejoicing in the wake of this forecast by the cherry trees' public custodian. Last summer the heavens had opened to pour upon Potomac Park a deluge of almost Biblical proportions. For days the cherry tree roots had stood in rotting slime. Their leaves browned, fell off. They were, apparently, dead. But now they had come alive again and were ready to draw multitudes of spring visitors to Washington to gaze in gabbling ecstasy. Great, among Washington's hotelmen and shopkeepers, was the name of Grant who fostered this renaissance...
Spring has brought to Col. Grant other problems. Spring makes the sap rise in human beings as well as in cherry trees and Col. Grant is the sworn foe of human sappiness in Washington's public parks. His was the campaign last year against "spooning, necking and petting" by night in automobiles along the Speedway and through Rock Creek Park. Now that the cherry trees are coming out, the motives of parking motorists may soon again disturb the peace of the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital...
...Washington he rules a great domain. To begin with he is the President's official landlord, charged with the maintenance of the White House. He is a potent member of these Commissions: Arlington Bridge, National Capital Park & Planning, Public Buildings, District of Columbia Zoning. His predecessor, Lieutenant Colonel Clarence O. Sherrill, retired in 1926 to go and be Cincinnati's $25,000-per-year city manager, a post he still fills to the greater glory of Cincinnati and himself...
...reveals that Dr. Frederic Martin Townsend, Glen Eden's founder-director, was graduated by the University of Michigan and the College of St. Francis Xavier, Manhattan. For a time he was director of the National Park Seminary in Forest Glen, Md., near Washington. Perhaps that is why he affixed a "Glen" to the Poughkeepsie "Eden" which he founded in 1910 and moved to Stamford, Conn, in 1919. Before he founded Glen Eden he conducted parties of summer tourists to Europe. His excuse for circularizing ministers to drum up a clientele was that Glen Eden is to be a "Church...