Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration leaders on Capitol Hill let it be known that they would like Congress to adjourn by July 15, a date chosen because by then Mr. Roosevelt will have entertained the King & Queen in Washington and in Hyde Park and returned from his annual cross-country survey "to see what the nation is thinking." Until July 15 (at least) Congress will simmer in Washington over: 1) Neutrality legislation, which had seemed moribund until Secretary Hull pleaded last week for amendments to allow sale of arms to (good) nations at war, 2) a tax bill, 3) Social Security. Mr. Roosevelt could...
...Nolan county, Texas, janitored his way through Southwestern University at Georgetown. He taught school, studied geology, got in on the lush 1920 Texas oil boom. He now owns oil wells in Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, raises hogs and cattle on his two farms and acts as mayor of Highland Park, fabulously wealthy suburb of Dallas...
...stagnation, growth and not decay. Sunny days attended Queen Wilhelmina's visit to the Liege Exposition in Belgium, where Wuthering Heights packed them in and unemployment dropped 3,000 in a month. In Tallinn, walled capital of Estonia, night clubs were open all night; in Kiev, at the Park of Culture and Rest, huge, heavy-looking trees brooded over the Dnepr and over the cleared spaces where, on the warm evenings, dances were held. Planting and raising things, betting on games, going to fairs, the people of Europe last week stirred as spring ripened, made the most...
...Whose $7,500,000 deficit, said Park Commissioner Robert Moses, will necessitate a second year...
Died. Dr. Gatewood, 51, fellow of the American College of Surgeons and member of the American Medical Association; of angina pectoris; in Highland Park, Ill. His parents never gave him a first name, left him to choose his own. Because he could not find one to suit him, he died first-nameless...