Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Each & every reporter at Hyde Park was aware that General Hugh Samuel Johnson had at last cooked his goose with the President. In his speech on the textile strike week before, NRA's Johnson had denounced the strikers in such violent terms that Labor swore it would have the General's scalp. In the same address General Johnson sealed his official doom, as far as the President was concerned, when he said: "During the whole intense [NRA] experience I have been in constant touch with that old counselor, Judge Louis Brandeis. As you know, he thinks that anything...
...dollars worth of property and cost 15 lives. Settlement of the strike, which had flunked the National Labor Relations Board, was effected by a report from a Presidential Committee of three headed by New Hampshire's Governor Winant. No sooner had the President read this report at Hyde Park than he announced his approval of it, expressed the "very sincere hope" that strikers go back to work, without discrimination by employers...
...unusual as Brasher's bird pictures will be the museum Connecticut intends to build in the Berkshires' Kent State Park. It will be a round, three-story structure, capable of holding 2,500 persons at one time. Visitors will climb ramps from the first floor to a rotunda on the second. There the circular floor space will be divided into twelve pie-like segments. At the end of each segment, facing the rotunda, will be hung the twelve biggest and best Brashers, to be viewed by visitors without moving from the building's centre. The other Brasher...
...attend co-educational institutions. There, say advocates of coeducation, they gain poise and maturity in a normal environment. There, say champions of separate colleges, they are distracted and dominated by men, miss the separate college's stimulus to leadership and a vigorous intellectual life. Says President Marion Edwards Park of Bryn Mawr: "Segregation at the college age doesn't hurt a bit. It teaches an appreciation of each other sadly lacking in women who have no chance to see their sex in control. The absence of sexual and social pressure is an intellectual advantage rather than a liability...
...blanket, pretending to be an Indian. He went on strike last spring when the club refused to raise the salary of Brother Paul, a 21-year-old rookie who joined the team this year. A third brother, Elmer ("Goober") Dean, sold peanuts at St. Louis Sportsman's Park until Mrs. Dizzy Dean made him stop because it detracted from her husband's dignity...