Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week amid his green fields at Hyde Park President Roosevelt talked to the Press again of his plan to visit 1936's Greater Drought later this month. Perhaps he might again prove himself to be a rain maker but, if so, it would be too late to do any real good...
Biggest news linking Nominee Landon with the Drought last week came not from the Governor but from President Roosevelt, who informed newshawks at Hyde Park that he would invite the Governors of Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas to a Drought conference with him early next month. "Kansas?" asked a reporter. "Why not?" smiled the President...
...that his Coronation procession should be the shortest possible and his Coronation ritual the simplest possible. Soon announced was an official route so short that the only way to make the publicly visible part of the Coronation any shorter would be to cut from Buckingham Palace straight across the park to Westminster Abbey. Seat prices along the official route promptly soared last week to as much as $200 for a small chair on a precarious roof ledge. In a patriotic effort not to profiteer, one London firm offered armchair seats in its shop windows for only $150 each, including sandwiches...
...cruise Balkan waters on the chartered $1,350,000 yacht Nahlin last week. His Majesty resorted not only to the usual incognito of going as "the Duke of Lancaster" but to unusual secrecy. His subjects had understood that he would leave from his royal airdrome at Windsor Great Park, gathered there in genial numbers to wish him Godspeed. Instead the King motored to a nearby private airdrome and forbade his staff to divulge the names of any of the five people who flew away with him in his royal plane, piloted by modest Edward ("Mouse") Fielden, Captain of the King...
...Case Ace, two-year-old owned by Mrs. Ethel V. Mars: the Futurity, feature race of the 30th and last day of Arlington Park's highly successful race-meet, for a first prize of $36,500; in Chicago...