Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion was his signing, just before leaving Washington for Hyde Park, a bill setting up a $10,000-a-year fiscal-&-personnel manager for the Federal judiciary. Present at the signing was Homer Stille Cummings* who, as Attorney General, included a similar court officer in the tricky bill which he wrote for Mr. Roosevelt in 1937 to New-Dealize the Supreme Court by adding six new Justices, which Congress indignantly refused to do. After Mr. Roosevelt signed, Mr. Cummings observed that this measure "puts the capsheaf" on Mr. Roosevelt's long fight for court reform. "Every objective the President...
...Hyde Park, a breakfast chat with his wife, and the thought of some 500 members of Congress getting back to their homes to prate about or deplore what the 76th had done in Washington, presently combined to inspire more fighting words from Franklin Roosevelt...
Smartest of the Nolan promotions are four parking lots, away from the business district, where Detroiters can park their cars for 15?, go downtown and back for another 15?, save parking troubles downtown. Another good one is a New Year's Eve service for drunks: D.S.R. busses deliver tipsy roisterers to their front doors...
Last week, out for public support for his 5? fare, Fred Nolan tried out another one: two-and three-hour "fresh-air cruises" for Detroiters in D.S.R. busses to River Rouge Park and other local beauty spots. The fare: 15? for adults, 10? for children. First night five busses were used, the second 13. Smart Fred Nolan prepared to throw into D.S.R.'s fresh-air cruises all the equipment that was needed...
...Hyde Park. Blurb of the week was written by Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt in her syndicated column, My Day. Blurbled she: "I read a book last night until 2:30 a. m. That doesn't happen very often to me. . . ." Sleep-murdering novel: Again the River (still in galley proofs), a story of floods and the people who fight them or get drowned in them. Author: Stella E. Morgan, a West Virginia housewife. Again the River is her first novel...