Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated and passed a bill appropriating some 285 millions to run the Department of the Interior, including 221 millions for military pensions and a quarter-million (first of four instalments) to buy up privately-owned lands in Yosemite National Park...
What takes them, or took them, to the little restaurant to see each other was a consuming desire to play with their money directly, on the turn of a card, the fall of dice. Between Central Park and 42nd Street, all around the little restaurant, is a forest of "broadminded" hotels where a man can keep a girl or a case of liquor or organize a fairly professional gambling game. Word would go to the little restaurant : "Room such-and-such, Hotel so-and-so." The dapper gentlemen played only among themselves, or with sports like themselves who would blow...
Died. Dr. C. E. Hemingway, 67, of Oak Park, Ill.; father of famed expatriate author Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises), chronic diabetic; by suicide; in Oak Park...
...made however a stir in sections of Manhattan where business is the subject of smart chatter. In the smart restaurants of lower Park Avenue, headwaiters consulted patrons differentially but earnestly. There were two reasons why they did so: Headwaiters yield only to speakeasy owners as shrewd investors; many a headwaiter was acquainted with the young and impressive Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. who was named to head the board of directors of the Jenkins Television Corp...
...these enterprises are connected with Wall Street. Biddle, along with social register companions, was accused only a fortnight ago of sharing with Mayor Walker a plot to convert the dismal restaurant which now sits like a spider, webbed with paths, at the centre of Central Park, into a civic banquet hall, thus encouraging patronage and improving the circumstances of the waiters who are employed there by the present lessee, Theatrical Zitell...