Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real red-hot millionaire hunt that foes of the Administration caught the ear of the press with some tax questions of their own. Republican Representative Hamilton Fish went so far as to ask questions about two of his constituents. Did Squire Franklin Delano Roosevelt of Hyde Park,* did Squire Henry Morgenthau of Fishkill, report their gentlemen-farming costs as business expenses in the "unethical" fashion in which other rich men treated racing stables, chicken farms, and yachts? Mrs. Roosevelt took notice of the question raised by Columnist David Lawrence- whether having checks for her radio performances turned over directly...
...main Roosevelt estate at Hyde Park belongs to the President's mother, but he owns a nearby farm...
...traffic to a bare 23,000 cars in 1936. Last week, bored with paying some $45,000 a year in taxes, Mr. Vanderbilt offered to give the old Parkway, which is now assessed at $1,100,000, to the public. President Robert Moses of the Long Island State Park Commission graciously accepted, said the old road would be modernized and linked into the rest of the parkway system...
Chairman Eaton has spared no expense to beautify his Park. At the foot of Mount Forest Lawn is an enormous marble group called Mystery of Life, at its top an 87-ft. Tower of Legends. Over the threats and legal objections of California morticians, Forest Lawn was the first large cemetery in the U. S. to install its own mortuary. There is also an Administration Building, copied from an English manor house and full of antiques, a flower shop, a crematory where last year 16% of the dead were received and a towering $4,500,000 Mausoleum-Columbarium, with...
Wayne F. Anderson, Andover; Edward L. Burwell, Exeter; Louis R. Chauvenet, Belmont Hill; Franklin N. Cunningham, Milton Academy; Richard D. Edwards, Choate; David D. Henry, Country Day School; Spender Klaw, Loomis School; Horace G. Lunt, Kent School; David A. Park, Gunnery School; John S. Parker, Jr., St. mark's; Howard A. Reed, Andover; Elliot L. Richardson, Milton Academy; Bernard D. Shea, Roxbury Latin; Charles C. Smith, Middlesex School; Archibald H. Spaulding, Jr., Thayer Academy; Richard S. Suter, Groton; Stephen Winship, Andover...