Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newshawks at Hyde Park last week got nothing more than what they had been expecting for weeks when the President's secretariat handed them two mimeographed sheets of paper. One sheet read...
Spring Song (by Bella and Samuel Spewack; Max Gordon, producer) shows the misfortunes which overtake the Solomon family, Ma (Helen Zelinskaya), Tillie (Frieda Altaian) and Florrie (Francine Larrimore) when Ma refuses to give Florrie $10 to go to Asbury Park. Deprived of a chance to see her own beau, Florrie goes out with Tillie's. The result of this excursion is a baby and a shotgun wedding. By the time the baby arrives, it is plain that in trying to make her daughters do the right thing, Ma Solomon has made bad matters worse. Florrie's beau marries...
...Justice's desk lay Mrs. Vanderbilt's petition for a writ of habeas corpus to compel Mrs. Whitney to surrender Gloria. Week before, charged Mrs. Vanderbilt, "The child said she wanted to go to Central Park with her nurse to feed the pigeons. . . . Shortly thereafter she was spirited out of the house by said nurse, Emma Keislich, without being brought back to your petitioner to say goodby. . . . The nurse took the infant to Mrs. Whitney's home and the infant has been confined and detained there ever since against the will and consent of your petitioner...
Thereupon some 50 distinguished men and women began taking turns at the speaker's rostrum where alert, bird-like Mrs. Meloney presided, or before microphones in faraway places. Busy Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt dashed down from Hyde Park to give the Conference one of her neat little speeches which sound so much more important than they look in print. Said she: "The higher standards which women now set themselves, for whatever work they engage in, will raise the standard of men's work. . . . The biggest change in standards must come [in] the field of business and of labor...
...half-consumed banana in his mouth, is Bruno Hauptmann, with some Hunter Island friends on a bummel. None of his circle was handier at collecting bits of driftwood, none could roast sausage nearer to a turn, none could play the mandolin or sing with greater virtuosity. An Irish park guard recalled that he was also a great horseshoe pitcher. Hauptmann, the Outdoor Man, was a good hand at inshore sailing. He owned a canoe which he kept at nearby City Island . Another boatsman of the vicinity was Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon, the aged and eccentric Bronx school master...