Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park, the President toured his well-grown fields in the small car which he drives himself, attended church, chose Dutchess County field stone for a new post office at Poughkeepsie. Most interesting visitor of the weekend was Bronx Democratic Leader and New York Secretary of State Edward J. Flynn. Correspondents guessed that Leader Flynn was trying to line up Presidential aid for Judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney in New York's mayoralty fight...
...trying to guess the precise significance of President Coolidge's famed "I do not choose to run." The Senate passed a resolution, introduced by Senator Robert La Follette, against Presidential third terms. On this precedent last week, Representative Hamilton Fish of New York, whose Congressional district includes Hyde Park, introduced a resolution that made interesting reading for his most famed constituent "that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the precedent established by Washington and other Presidents . . . in retiring . . . after their second term . . . has become by common concurrence a part of our republican system of Government...
While Belgian peasants harkened one morning to the sombre ringing of bells, Londoners were being wakened by the sound of guns. From Hyde Park and the Tower of London 41 thundering discharges shook the metropolis and Londoners hardly turned a hair. They barely recalled the 23rd anniversary of Britain's going to war but they were well aware of the 37th anniversary of another event, the birth of a girl child- her ninth-to the amiable and motherly Countess of Strathmore & Kinghorne. It was the birthday of England's new Queen Elizabeth...
...conclusion of the World War the famed Antwerp zoo was sadly depleted. New York's comradely N. Y. Zoological Park shipped to Antwerp 325 birds and animals. Thus, when Dr. William Reid Blair, genial director of the Zoological Park, made a bid for the Buta okapi, the Belgian Government saw fit to repay past kindness by giving him to Dr. Blair at a price far below that offered. But the okapi did not immediately leave Buta. In view of the indifferent success a few zoos have had in keeping them, Dr. Blair decided to let his okapi become accustomed...
...nearby Roosevelt Park, throngs of Catholics and non-Catholics presently heard the Catholic Governor greet his new spiritual leader with a reference to Michigan's "weighty problems of social and economic adjustment.'' Said Governor Murphy: "To the solution of these problems Archbishop Mooney brings a world of wisdom, of kindly understanding and of farseeing vision. I rejoice in the thought of the great good that a shepherd of his spiritual content can do for the people in encouraging the Christian approach to their problems...