Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peace Meeting to be held in the New Lecture Hall tonight marks a complete breaking away from the tactics of Union Square and the atmosphere of Hyde Park which has characterized these functions in the past. The meeting is being sponsored by the leading student organizations in the college; outstanding speakers have been engaged to present sincere and constructive criticism of methods of secure lasting peace throughout the world...
...autumn renovating, the President found that only three rooms of the White House were ready for occupancy. So he spent the weekend on the Sequoia dedicating a bridge near Cambridge, Md. and cruising the Chesapeake, planned to go this week to his mother's place at Hyde Park. There he hoped table discipline would help him take off a few extra pounds acquired on the Houston...
...this time somebody had sent for the Marines and volunteer constables were being hastily armed with pistols. The mob swept on out of town, barricaded the road with uprooted telephone poles, tore down the bridge at Camden Park and separated the Leeward and Windward sides of the island. Grocery stores, plantations and homes, including those of Judge Williams and Attorney General Ross, were looted. In Kingstown, a burst of rifle fire from the police killed three natives, wounded eight. Next morning into the harbor steamed H. M. S. Challenger, and in a jiffy a landing party of Royal Marines were...
...department store, landed in Manhattan. Of the Roosevelt Administration, he said: "When businessmen find an experiment does not work, they drop it immediately." Few days later he arrived by airplane at Oshkosh. Amid a wild honking of horns he motored to his birthplace at small Ripon, Wis., had a park named for him, received an L.H.D. from Ripon College. That night, at a banquet during the course of which an overtaxed lighting system thrice broke down, white-thatched Dr. Selfridge delighted Riponese by his vocabulary of U. S. slang...
...August) had to be removed from the campus come years ago. Columbia has felt the space problem more acutely than any other of our Colonial colleges. When the old print was made it had already moved 9in 1756) from near Trinity Church to the outskirts what is now Park Place. The outskirts to which the college moved in 1857 was the region around Madison Avenue and 40th Street...