Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supplement a Press conference, the President gave his annual Hyde Park picnic to correspondents. There was bobbing for apples, a game called "musical bumps," other Roosevelt family games without names, community singing. The feast included roast ham, salad, pie, coffee. On a little charcoal grill placed before him, the President prepared the picnic frankfurters...
...that the stars and the balls of tinfoil we delightedly rolled up would have impressed us much if other leftovers hadn't followed us all through our school days. Cannon on the courthouse lawn; a mail-order catalog soldier-with-bayonet in every public park; red paper poppies for sale in the streets; yearly "Conventions" with men in uniforms bowling down Main Street, slapping each other on the back, singing rowdy songs, drunk at the intersection trying to direct traffic with a cardboard whistle. Later, war movies, R. O. T. C. parades, University Gothic towers with memorial plaques, billboards plastered...
...Ethiopian crisis before returning to his London post. Secretary Roper arrived to discuss his Commerce Department's budget. Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins appeared to row over relief policy (see col. 2). But at the close of Squire Roosevelt's second vacation week at Hyde Park House, his visitors had left only one resignation behind. That came from New York City's Works Progress Administrator Hugh Samuel Johnson. "It ain't gonna be any more pro bono publico," declared the grinning General. "I've got to get out and make me some money...
...enunciates the clearest, most effective and beneficial principles of social and economic justice of any living American political economist." That Franklin Roosevelt had taken a potent critic into camp seemed to be confirmed last week when Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the Securities & Exchange Commission rolled up to Hyde Park with Father Coughlin in tow. So discreetly was this reunion between President and Priest handled that the Press did not know about it for 24 hours. Even the nature of the meeting or its results were kept a dead secret by both parties...
...process-servers who are confident that any man can be made--to accept a summons. The difficulties they encounter in slapping subpoenas on such men as Butch Gonzales, Phil Logan, and Man Mountain Dean are as nothing compared to the complexities which arise when C. Richard Courtney of Central Park, West, is attacked. Hugh Herbert adds another figure to his imposing list of characterizations in the person of one Homer Bronson, shyster lawyer with considerable experience in breaches of promise. The courtroom scene is hardly calculated to bring into one's mind a similar scene from the Merchant of Venice...