Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was less unity but even more uproar among people about to be evicted for the parkway project; a radical faction which wanted to march on the City Hall was at swords' points with conservatives who just wanted another place to park their beds...
...late Franklin D. Roosevelt was proud of being senior warden of St. James' Church at Hyde Park, N.Y. His father had been a vestryman before him. His first son, James, also served. St. James' and the Roosevelts were linked by tradi tion and sentiment. On Nov. 14, the Roosevelt-less vestry of ivy-covered...
...Hastings fishermen protested against the encroachment of an amusement park on their fishing grounds (see cut). ¶ In London's St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 40 night nurses, peeved with their frugal fare, staged a lie-down strike. They stayed in bed an extra hour...
...Back in the '30s, he had joined other truckers in getting federal rate regulation, squeezing out small, cut-rate truckers. It had helped so well that Keeshin had been able to buy the major interest in Chicago's enormously profitable race track, Sportsman's Park. Recently he had put up most of the $250,000 invested to start a new pro football team in Chicago...
...itch spread throughout the Continent and erupted into an annoying problem for many British schools. UNRRA has reported that the epidemic has now become worldwide. Druggists in Washington, D.C. have noticed that more & more people come in to ask why they itch. A dermatologist on Manhattan's Park Avenue admits that cases have increased. No official statistics are available because the disease is not reported to health departments and most victims are reticent...