Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Pfc. Jack Loeb of Elkins Park, Pa., who had gone to the Conference to see "what we were fighting for": "If it was me, I'd just tell them all to go to hell." As the delegates disputed, he whispered: "Why don't they just take a vote on it? That's what we used to do in high school...
Eleanor Roosevelt, who had dozed at the wheel of her new Lincoln sedan, came out of a three-way smashup with her appearance changed a bit but her sense of humor intact. Bowling down to Manhattan from Hyde Park she had crossed the white line, smacked one car headon, sideswiped another. Four people besides herself were bunged up. "I myself am quite well," she reported promptly in her column, "though for some time I shall look as though I had been in a football game without having taken any training. My eyes are black and blue. In fact...
...determined how the disease spreads; it is as likely to strike on Park Avenue as in Hell's Kitchen, hits harder in suburbs than in cities. There is no proof that polio is spread by flies, drinking water, milk, swimming in infected waters...
Thanks to F.D.R.'s own interest in history and his place in it, his papers are not stored, like most presidents', in a family attic or scattered casually in trunks here & there. The Roosevelt papers, gathered in the $350,000 Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park, are already open, for the most part, to qualified scholars. Some letters and documents, dealing with state secrets and living officials are still sealed up, and will remain so for an as-yet-unspecified term-presumably for at least a generation. It took over a half-century to produce anything near...
...Vetoed a bill to establish a Theodore Roosevelt National Park near the North Dakota village of Medora...