Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the gates of Hyde Park all last week passed a stream of big cars. Across the terrace of the Roosevelt house marched a parade of important visitors. As they came out, after talking to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, there was gloomy information for the press. Said Financier Bernard Baruch, just back from abroad: "Europe is a tinderbox. Anything can happen." Said ordinarily cheerful Ambassador-at-Large Norman H. Davis, of the situation in general: "I can't see anything that is very promising." With two wars and a stockmarket slump to worry about between visitors, Franklin Delano Roosevelt presently...
...debutante daughter of the late F. Haven Clark, Boston investment counsellor, who last April broke her engagement to Samuel Stevens Sands, grandson of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt Jr. Last spring, Anne Clark went to Harvard's commencement with John Roosevelt. Last week, she was on hand at Hyde Park to welcome him home. Before reporters got a chance to ask him about the romance, he and Anne Clark set off to motor to Boston. John Roosevelt's ostensible business was to arrange for a room for his senior year at Harvard, but three days later, Mrs. Clark announced...
...Island as the third stop to & from China, the airport's chief ornamental feature has been an old anchor. Corroded by decades of salt water, its flukes almost rusted away, the ancient piece of iron rises seven feet above a rough concrete base in the centre of "The Park" between the landing stage and hotel. But until last week nobody was able to tell passengers much about Wake's old anchor...
...Then, after much dallying. Congress unanimously passed the Pittman-Robertson Federal-Aid-to-Wildlife Bill to appropriate to the various States the 10% excise tax on sporting arms and ammunitions. It assured the program an annual $3,000,000 as a friendly President signed it at Hyde Park last week...
...MAKING OF A SCIENTIST-Raymond L. Ditmars-Macmillan ($2.75). The Curator of Mammals and Reptiles at the New York Zoological Park writes informatively, amusingly of his adventures with the animals. Copiously illustrated...