Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After a long week-end at Hyde Park the President attended graduation exercises at West Point, told a new class of second lieutenants that they must think of their responsibilities to the U. S. in peace as well as in war. Then, in a practical-joking mood, he returned to Washington to review the final parade of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Sitting in a covered stand before the White House while the Shriners marched past him in a pouring rain, he was in high spirits, because by his telephoned request...
...Washington lobbyist is worth his mimeograph machine unless he is a master at the game of political trading. No Washington lobby is more numerous or active than that of the American Federation of Labor, with its fine marble headquarters overlooking a tiny public park adorned with a statue of the late great Samuel Gompers. But the records show that the A. F. of L. has a poor score for political trading. During the War Gompers traded the credo of the Socialist-Pacifist Federation for union wages in Government shipyards and munitions plants, a swap which helped demoralize the Federation...
...their pictures in the papers. For "Muny" opera some 1,700 seats are free to first-comers who arrive hours before curtain time, munch their suppers while they wait. In the $2 seats early-dining socialites sit comfortably on cushions hawked at every entrance. But informality prevails at Forest Park performances. The popcorn sale is heavy. Soft-drink men stalk the aisles. St. Louis expects much this year of Producer Laurence Schwab. Boston-born Harvardman whose Broadway record shines. Producer Schwab will follow the established "Muny" pattern, change operas every Monday during the twelve-week season.* Teresina was a sterile...
Married. Marjorie de Loosey Oelrichs, 27, mural painter, decorator, stylist, writer, musicologist, beauteous only daughter of Socialite Charles de Loosey Oelrichs of Manhattan, Newport and Palm Beach; and Edward Frank ("Eddy") Duchin, 26, registered pharmacist, orchidaceous band leader at Manhattan's swank Central Park Casino; in Manhattan. Conductor Duchin's longtime theme song: "Margie...
...monthly magazine now supported by 15,000 readers. Editor Herbert Kline explained that the League aimed to serve "the needs of working-class audiences for plays unlike the theatrical marshmallows served up on Broadway which deal with problems quite as remote from the workers' lives as peculiar Park Avenue triangles and Hollywood infidelities." While officially professing no political creed, most League member theatres leaned inevitably toward Socialism. Membership was usually composed of unemployed or partly employed industrial workers not only in big centres like Chicago and Cleveland but in smaller manufacturing cities like Moline, Ill. and Gary...