Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Circular letters were received by 10,000 employes of the Department of Agriculture asking contributions to build the Roosevelt Memorial Library at Hyde Park. Replying to criticism, the collector in charge explained: "This is a strictly voluntary proposition...
...Putting the world on notice that, if war should break while he was gone, he would instantly summon Congress into special session to revise Neutrality, Franklin Roosevelt left Hyde Park, went down to the sea in the cruiser Tuscaloosa. He rounded Cape Cod, radioed "Well done" to the Squalus salvagers who last week dragged the sunken submarine two miles toward shore until it stuck in an uncharted mud lump. The President proceeded to his mother's place at Campobello Island where, 18 years ago, a ducking in the icy water was followed by the infantile paralysis attack which crippled...
...Most householders and shopkeepers had already voluntarily followed the Government's request by extinguishing outside lights, curtaining windows, painting over skylights. Angry crowds smashed the signs and windows of two nonconformist shops. Police in white raincoats and civilian air wardens halted cars, asked drivers to dim down to parking lights. Crowds out to see the fun bumped their shins on dark sidestreets and flocked into Piccadilly Circus and Hyde Park, where spectators alternately cheered and groaned at the efforts of the searchlight crews...
...Hambletonian (for three-year-old trotters), 40,000 harness-racing enthusiasts gathered last week in the tiny village of Goshen, N. Y. It was the year's muggiest day. But the sweltering crowd-a hodge-podge of city slickers and country bumpkins-jostling into Good Time Park like a rush-hour subway crush, would not have traded places with the coolest sea bather. Up to the bookmakers they streamed, placed their bets, bought soda pop, then settled down to watch the four races on the Hambletonian Day card...
Three years ago, handsome, curly-haired Fred McClung, 29-year-old pastor of the Highland Park Church of Christ at Fort Worth, Texas, encountered a sore temptation. During the Fort Worth "Frontier Centennial" he met smart little Showman Billy Rose, who told him he would do well in the movies. When Producer Jesse L. Lasky's Gateway to Hollywood contest set up its sideshow in Fort Worth fortnight ago, star-rapt Parson McClung thought he saw his chance. So did Lasky's talent scouts, who put him down as the best prospect† they had found in many...