Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill to .create a 100,000-acre national park in the Grand Teton Range, Wyoming...
...setting thus described by him to the Senate, grim-visaged Senator Thomas J. Walsh has a bower, a summer-home on the northeastern end of Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, Montana. He owns two-thirds of an acre with a 150-foot lake frontage, purchased from the holder of the original land patent before the park was created in 1910. Last week the grey Walsh mustache bristled more ferociously than ever as he did legislative battle in defense of his summer hearthstone and of a governmental principle...
...House, passing the Interior Department's appropriation bill, had tagged it with an amendment giving the Secretary of the Interior $250,000 to acquire by condemnation private lands in national parks, and authorizing him to incur additional obligations up to $2,750,000 to match public donations for park improvements. Behind this proposal were two purposes: 1) To save Yosemite National Park from logging on 11,000 acres of private land within its confines; 2) To banish forever unsightly "hot dog" stands from Federal expanses of nature's bosom...
...Reverend Dr. Charles Edwards Park, Minister of the First Church, Boston, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel this morning at 8.45 o'clock...
...Reverend Dr. Charles Edwards Park, Minister of the First Church, Boston, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel this morning at 8.45 o'clock...