Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Winston Churchill, 75, U.S. author (no kin to the famed Briton †) of once best-selling historical novels (Richard Carvel, The Crisis), to which he abruptly wrote an end in 1917 (he wrote one other book in 1940, The Uncharted Way, a tract on religious philosophy): in Winter Park...
...father and grandfather before him were editors. He was 33 when, in 1921, Father Henry C. became Harding's Secretary of Agriculture and made Henry A. the editor of the influential Wallaces' Farmer. He was 44 when he met President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park, used the language of the Brain Trusters so patly that F.D.R., to Wallace's surprise, made him his Secretary of Agriculture six months later...
...even passing importance--one an exemption from taxation of Mr. Rockefeller's gift to the United Nations, the other an extension of the war-time rate of certain excise taxes. The rest concern such vital issues as annual rates of pay for Senate clerical staffs, the Philadelphia National Shrines Park Commission, installation of a storm drain under certain lands in Los Angeles, and payments to Switzerland for the sinking of the Awa Maru...
...signal flags in some 200 brand new Park-O-Meters will begin curbing erst-while traffic violators on the local scene Monday morning at 8 o'clock, following the installation of meterheads today...
Local college belles will join forces with the University, Zionist Organization on Sunday, April 13, when it goes on its all-day picnic to Riverside Park in Norumbega. Arnold J. Cohen '50, treasurer of the organization announced last night...