Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some clue to their Government's financial policy. Over Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain's signature a letter appeared in the London Times, and the country devoured it eagerly. Excerpts: "It may be of interest to record that in walking through St. James's Park today I noticed a grey wagtail. . . . Probably the occurrence of this bird in the heart of London has been recorded before, but I have not myself previously noted it in the Park. P.S. . . . I mean a grey wagtail and not a pied...
...leader of the fight for Ireland's Home Rule. The climax of Parnell's career has been ably studied in a recent biography (Parnell, by Joan Haslip) as well as in Author Schauffler's play. He vindicated himself of complicity in Dublin's grisly Phoenix Park murders, got Gladstone to back his Home Rule bill, fell in love with red-haired Katie O'Shea. Her husband Willie connived at their romance until it suited his purpose to sue for divorce. When Parnell failed to defend the suit, he lost not only the public that...
...giving him a political job. It shows Parnell dying of a stroke almost immediately after his Party has deserted him and before his marriage to Katie. It is at its best in earlier sequences showing Parnell speaking in Parliament at the time of the trial arising from the Phoenix Park case. Best bit part: Brandon Tynan, Dublin-born actor, who got 27 curtain calls the night in 1902 when he appeared in New York in the title role of a play about Irish Patriot Robert Emmet, as J. F. X. O'Brien, oldest member of the Home Rule Party...
...Union Pacific Railroad, the U. S. Government asked the friendly Shoshone Indian Tribes in Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming to swap their 44,672,000 miscellaneous acres for the choice, compact, well-watered 3,054,182 acres of what is now the Wind River Reservation southeast of Yellowstone National Park. The Indians agreed, moved and thereafter aided U. S. soldiers in campaigns against such hostile tribes as the Sioux, Arapahoes and Cheyennes. A few years later for reasons now unknown the conquered Arapahoes were given U. S. military escort to the Shoshone lands, protected in their occupancy of a million...
...Detroit last week newshawks hunted up Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin, radio priest of the Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Mich. Save when he announced that he was converting land across from his Shrine into a park, and when he ordered a gasoline filling station built there to force the hand of a filling station proprietor who would not sell, Father Coughlin has been sticking to religion lately. When asked to comment on the fact that he had a new superior, succeeding the late, well-meaning Bishop Michael James Gallagher of Detroit (TIME, Feb. 1), Father Coughlin...