Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Avon Park...
...Civil Liberties Union to defend himself against a charge of abridging the constitutional right of free speech-Norman Thomas, whose Socialist Party claims partial credit for ex posing Jersey City as a place where civil liberties are dead, appeared in Newark's Military Park to berate Mayor Hague publicly. His reward: howls, band music, ripe tomatoes, rotten eggs, an announcement by the park commissioner that hereafter Newark, like Jersey City, will permit no more anti-Hague meetings...
...Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, ardent admirer of Führer Adolf Hitler, and 23-year-old daughter of England's pro-German insurance tycoon Lord Redesdale, has a failing for flaunting her swastika pin where it causes trouble. Two months ago she boldly barged into a Hyde Park meeting for supporters of Leftist Spain wearing her badge, had to be rescued by London bobbies. Last week she incensed the Czechs by strolling the streets of Prague, swastika in her lapel. Display of the Nazi badge is forbidden. Anxious Prague police asked the British Legation to induce Unity to keep...
...materials, freedom to travel. To win it, Architect Iversen got through preliminaries that eliminated 74 entrants, then worked for a month on a set problem in competition with eight other finalists. The problem : to design an open-air theatre for a city of 500,000, in an amusement park on the westerly edge of a hypothetical lake, with the stage mounted on a barge. Said Winner Iversen, unflushed by his victory, "I don't think I could get a $30 a week architecture job here right...
...features. But last fortnight it went on a tear. "Can You Take It?" the theatre's advertisement in the Cody Enterprise inquired. It then listed Saturday's bill. "Seven features, no show twice," starting at 2:30 p.m., ending at 10:40. Folks came from all over Park County, at the theatre's invitation brought their lunches, stuck around till closing time...