Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open-air lunch with the President at Hyde Park, New York's Herbert Lehman carted 17 other Democratic Governors, ten Republicans who had just finished the business of their 31st Annual Governors' Conference at Albany. The Democrats needed comfort, for at the supposedly non-partisan conference such new G. O. P. brooms as Raymond E. Baldwin of Connecticut, John William Bricker of Ohio, had put them on the defensive by hammering at Federal Relief policies (but not at Relief cash...
...hard-money men led by Virginia's Carter Glass killed the section of the bill renewing the President's power to revalue the dollar by getting Key Pittman's silver bloc to join them -the price being 77.57? an oz. for domestic silver. In Hyde Park, President Roosevelt hit the ceiling. He accused the hard-money men of returning control of the U. S. dollar to Wall Street's exchange speculators. Secretary Morgenthau announced that U. S. farmers and businessmen had "better start worrying seriously" if the Senate's action stood. Neither announcement improved...
...Republicans and then Senator Vandenberg asked all factions, who were agreed on the Stabilization Fund's desirability, to pass a separate resolution to preserve it. This suggestion got nowhere. But it and other speeches took up time. In reply to Mr. Roosevelt's outburst at Hyde Park, Mr. Vandenberg said: "I wonder if our distinguished Executive realized precisely what he was saying . . . that when Congress controls money, Wall Street controls...
...December, when the Duke of York changed his name and title at a few days' notice to George VI of Great Britain, he also perforce changed his address from 145 Piccadilly to Buckingham Palace. Since February 1937, 145 Piccadilly, a few steps from the main entrance to Hyde Park, has remained closed. Last week it was thrown open to the public with a show of 1,300 "Royal and Historic Treasures" which, to the public at least, constituted the most spectacular exhibition of the season...
...header against the Philadelphia Athletics, 23-to-2 and 10-to-0; in which they set two new major-league records (eight homeruns in one game and 13 homeruns in two successive games) and a new American League record (a total of 53 bases in one game); at Shibe Park, Philadelphia...