Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marching Men." Lew lasted as Budget Director for just 18 months. When New Deal public works and pump-priming began, Lew Douglas knew he was licked. He went up to Hyde Park to protest. Replied Roosevelt: "But if we don't continue there will be revolutions and marching men." Lew disagreed. That day he handed in his resignation...
Secret of Success. In England these days he has little time for the fishing he loves. The two bicycles given him by admirers are locked up in the cellar at Prince's Gate. He sees an occasional movie, sometimes gets in a walk in Hyde Park or a weekend in the country. After this week he will miss his rare, free evenings at home with Mrs. Douglas and daughter Sharman (a crashing belle of London society). They flew back to the U.S. for Christmas in New York with son Peter, down from Yale, and New Year...
Actor Basil Rathbone, 55, came a painful cropper. His black police dog, Maritza, snapped the leash while the two were strolling in Manhattan's Central Park; Maritza leaped a high wall and dashed into Fifth Avenue traffic; Rathbone tried to follow suit, fell over the wall, broke his left wrist, and fainted. Skipped: one performance of the Broadway hit, The Heiress. Thereafter he villainized with his arm in a cast...
...school is in a white colonial farmhouse 200 yards from the huge, functional ex-factory that houses the U.N. at Lake Success. The U.N. turned the farmhouse over rent-free to a parents' association of delegates and secretariat members. U.N. parents park their youngsters at the nursery school on their way to work at 9:30 a.m., leave them there till...
...appeal to him was that we were facing war, that he had a greater hold on the people of the democratic world than any other statesman of his time, and that it was too late to find a substitute; that I understood his wanting to retire to Hyde Park to enjoy the freedom of private citizenship, but that I did not think that was good enough in the dangerous days that lay ahead. He looked wan and tired, and it hurt me to say what I had to say. ..." Roosevelt never told him he was going to appoint him Ambassador...