Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt announced last Christmastide that he would leave to the nation all his private papers since 1910 (numbering some 8,000,000 items) if admirers would build, with private funds, a repository for them at Hyde Park on land which he would donate, and if Congress would keep it up in perpetuity with public funds. Last week this offer lay before the House for acceptance. To Mr. Roosevelt's admirers' dismay, it was declined...
Next day Franklin Roosevelt unveiled another plan he had been nursing. He nominated for Librarian of Congress one of the eminent literary persons whom he had consulted on the Hyde Park library idea: Poet Archibald MacLeish...
...York's Westchester Polo Club whose first playing field was at the Jerome Park race track in Westchester County. Later the club moved to a field on 156th Street, Manhattan, still known as the Polo Grounds although it is the ball-park of the New York Giants...
Last week a Montmartre-like mob of about 200 gay students gathered in Grant Park, just north of the institute, around a huge clownlike dummy in rompers, silk stockings and a Victorian, plumed hat. Young Daniel Catton Rich, director of the institute, ran over to plead with them to disperse, and so did popular Dean Norman Rice. But suddenly four ringleaders in black hoods hoisted the effigy to their shoulders, shouted "Let's go!" About half the crowd followed, chanting lugubriously, carrying signs which read: NERVOUS HYSTERIA IS NOT ART CRITICISM; SEND E. JEWETT TO ART SCHOOL; JEWETT...
...Mayor LaGuardia, the Board of Estimate and the City Council demanded that Governor Lehman call the Legislature into special session to restore the $5,300,000 it had pared from State aid to the city's schools. Meanwhile 1,500 teachers marched to Board of Education headquarters on Park Avenue. And up & down before the Republican State Committee's offices in 42nd Street marched Charles Hinckley, 5, and Jill Hinckley, 3, leading a procession of 150 school children. Charles carried a sign: "WE WANT TO GO TO KINDERGARTEN." His followers chanted: "Republicans promised to protect our schools...