Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spending Issue. Along the Nominee's four-mile route from the railroad station at Pittsburgh to Forbes Field, National League baseball park, wildly cheering crowds were lined so thick that a vanguard of 60 motorcycle policemen had frequently to push a way through the pack. When the Roosevelt procession reached the ball park, every one of its 45,000 seats was taken and some 30,000 other citizens were jammed on the field, in the aisles, outside the gates. Not since he appeared at Philadelphia last June to accept his nomination had newshawks heard anything like the roar which...
...audience so bent on whooping things up that it cheered almost every sentence, whether applause was indicated or not, the Democratic Nominee cried: "A baseball park is a good place to talk about box scores. . . . Now, when the present management of your team took charge in 1933 the national Scoreboard looked pretty bad. . . . Our national income had declined over 50% . . . from $81,000,000,000 a year to $38,000,000,000 a year. . . . The money to run the Government comes from taxes; and the tax revenue in turn depends for its size on the size of the national income...
...Chicago's suburban Oak Park 100 American Legionaries with overseas caps and a big U. S. flag appeared at the First Congregational Church to censor an address to its young peoples' society by Illinois' Communist Gubernatorial Candidate Samuel T. Hammersmark. Also present were some 500 Oak Park matrons & men who hissed, booed, yowled, screamed "Liar!" and "Murderer" so lustily that the Legionaries were forced to reverse their role, protect the speaker from his audience. Up stood the church's Pastor Albert Buckner Coe at meeting's end, said to Red Hammersmark...
...studio in New York for years. One evening in 1915 Sculptor Diederich gave a farewell party before moving to another studio. About the third round of drinks the problem of the greyhounds and what to do with them seemed very acute. Somebody suddenly remembered that there was in Central Park a vacant pedestal. With great sweating and grunting the entire party loaded the greyhounds into a taxi and presented them informally to the city. Police for some reason found this highly irregular, forced Sculptor Diederich to move his greyhounds to the arsenal...
...University Parking Space, opened last year in recognition of a long-standing demand on the part of students for a place to park cars on University property, will this year be run by students...