Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington from Hyde Park went President Roosevelt at the beginning of last week. He found Secretary of Commerce Roper, just back from Europe, telling everyone not to have the jitters, but anxious reports were flowing in from U. S. diplomats abroad-Wilbur Carr in Prague, Hugh Wilson in Berlin, Bill Bullitt in Paris, Bill Phillips in Rome, Joe Kennedy in London. After listening to Mr. Kennedy at length on the transatlantic telephone, Secretary of State Hull marched out of his office, across the street to the White House, to give a verbatim account of what Prime Minister Chamberlain had just...
...Llewellyn Park. N. J.. Mrs. John Eyre Sloane, daughter (Madeleine) of the late great Thomas Alva Edison, sister of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, announced herself a Republican candidate for nomination to a seat in Congress...
...talk "Purge," Mr. Roosevelt summoned Democratic National Chairman Jim Farley to Hyde Park-first time they had talked since Mr. Roosevelt's excursion into the primary States and Mr. Farley's trip to make peace in States where primaries were over. For one whole afternoon they rode around the Presidential estate, talking without danger of being overheard. Although Mr. Farley was against the Purge early in the summer and was reported still to view Mr. Roosevelt's recently renewed Purge with alarm, when they came back from the ride it was understood that their differences were reconciled...
...William Green's eyes, the main obstacle to his resuming his position as the topdog of U. S. Labor is the superior favor enjoyed by his enemy with the present President of the U. S. In spite of a long telegram which Mr. Green sent to Hyde Park outlining the A. F. of L.'s objections to the reappointment of Donald Wakefield Smith to the National Labor Relations Board, the President promptly did as he was requested not to do. Mr. Green was able to announce, however, that the President agreed with him in principle that the Wagner...
...boys were generally built close to the camps for girls, with a resulting high incidence of pregnancy. This summer, camps for the different sexes were separated, frequently by several miles. From Munich, however, accounts came last week of a new Labor Service scandal: at a rally in Nymphenburg Park appeared buxom, sun-bronzed Nazi wenches from the camps, engaging in athletic contests with Apollos from the boys' camps, both wearing nothing but G-strings. Photographers were barred by the police...