Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of FORTUNE, which has been experimenting with the film for some months, will appear two pages of Dufaycolor photographs of Manhattan's pushcart market on upper Park Avenue...
Claudette Colbert, the gilded lily, appears in the film, bearing that name, which indicates from the start how one is going to have a good time and is therefore doubly successful. Ungilded, she is a shopgirl who meets a steamship reporter every Thursday evening on a bench in the park. They eat popcorn and take off their shoes...
...vigorous message urging an end to the "subterfuge" of ocean mail contracts, the "failure'' of Federal loans for shipbuilding. In their stead he proposed a forthright system of direct subsidies to shippers. ¶At his first press conference after his return to the White House from Hyde Park the President paternally suggested to the assembled newshawks that they buy the Government's new baby bonds (see p. 63). From the back of the room pert Doris Fleeson (New York Daily News), piped: "What with...
From the Harvard Fly Club dinner Franklin Roosevelt went to Hyde Park, with a great show of indifference as to what was going on in Washington. His secretariat, however, let newshawks in on what they glowingly described as the President's "deep satisfaction" at the "many thousands of letters and telegrams" which were inundating Washington-"so great that even the President was surprised." Washington newshawks, unable to find any confirmation of this postal flood, told a different story, openly suspected the White House staff of trying to outbluff the Senate...
...gold medal in 1933 in a Better Homes in America competition, with a 1½-story cottage which a jury found "admirable, compact, convenient, well lighted and well aired." He planned the model ''America's Little House" which currently stands in Manhattan at the corner of Park Avenue and 39th Street...