Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment of Mr. Franke's first appearance on the White House scene, septuagenarian Mr. Ford was trying out Attorney General Homer S. Cummings' bullet-proof Lincoln. With Mr. Ford on a breeze through the tortuous roadways of Rock Creek Park were his son Edsel and two Washington correspondents, Clifford Prevost of the Detroit Free Press and Jay G. Hayden of the Detroit News. Both Mr. Prevost and Mr. Hayden have developed excellent news contacts with Ford Motor Co., and they later were to serve as the only authoritative reporters of a historic two hours in the life...
...Cummings Lincoln, provided by White House order, was by then ready for them. The drive through the park ended at the White House at 12:55 p.m. Meantime, the White House police had been busy with six Johnny Jones Exposition midgets and a pressagent who were shooed away before they could emulate the little lady who perched on J. Pierpont Morgan's knee at a Senate hearing five years ago (TIME, June...
With much more savoir-faire than many a movie star, a little five-year-old stepped off a Pullman car at Belmont Park, N. Y. one day last week and patiently posed for dozens of cameramen who had come to greet him. The young visitor had just traveled 3,000 miles from San Francisco to keep an engagement with his uncle. The visitor's name was Seabiscuit, No. 1 money-winner of 1937, and he had come to run a $100,000 race, winner-take-all, with equally famed, four-year-old War Admiral, on Memorial...
...others were still using sweeps and windlasses. It was a wooden pump; and one day it just wooden pump. The Virginians got so dirty (I did not say thirsty) for lack of water, that George was figuring how to fix it, when a "Good Neighbor" from Hide-out Park happened along, named Fuddy-Duddy Rosey. Said he, "All that pumps ever need, is priming. So I will hire 10 million able-bodied men to carry water in cute little May-baskets, from the Privy, Treasury to prime it." So he primed it for seven years. When it still...
SUNDAY IN THE PARK and ONE BIG UNION FOR Two (Vocalion). The currently highly popular Garment Workers' show tunes. The needleworkers' gift to the phonograph needle well played by Bob Sylvester and Cab Calloway...