Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion was the dedication of a $3,500,000 Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, a new granite wing to the American Museum of Natural History opposite Manhattan's Central Park. Erected to commemorate Roosevelt the explorer and Roosevelt the naturalist, the man who rode the plains of the West, penetrated the River of Doubt, hunted through the African jungle, the new and still empty museum heard more at its dedication of Roosevelt the statesman. Franklin Roosevelt filled his address with T. R. quotations, most of which needed little stretching to apply to the New Deal. In his first message to Congress...
Twenty-two Christmas trees twinkled in Gorky Park, and on six great rinks ice skaters disported themselves beneath banners carrying the new slogan of Joseph Stalin, "Life becomes better! Life becomes happier...
...first Philharmonic concert in 1928. He was not suffering from gout nor had he tumbled into the first violins at rehearsal (TIME, March 14, 1932). But Sir Thomas always affords sure entertainment. He strolled on stage as casually as if he were taking an everyday turn in the park. He bowed leisurely, shrewdly appraised his audience. Then with a bounce he was up on the stand, swinging his baton as if it were a cricket bat, crouching, dancing, shaking his fist, whipping along a performance which, from beginning to end, was extraordinarily vital...
...will not accept new members from their faculties. The "ineligible" pen contained five such black sheep. DePauw (Greencastle, Ind.), Brenau (Gainesville, Ga.) and Harris Teachers College of St. Louis were penned up because their respective presidents had arbitrarily dismissed professors-in most cases outspoken liberals. So was Rollins (Winter Park, Fla.), which considers itself to have been shabbily treated, contends that an experimental, progressive college like itself should be privileged to shuffle its faculty when it chooses. The only black sheep of importance was the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. The Academy was blacklisted in 1933 after it replaced...
...Brodie and Kolmer protested that the dead children must have been exposed to infantile paralysis before getting full protective doses of their respective vaccines. Nonetheless. New York City's Department of Health stopped vaccinating children with the Park-Brodie serum. Smugly Keith Morgan, vice president of Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, denied that his organization had supplied any money for the disputed infantile paralysis vaccines...