Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second year of the New Deal, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. took a protegé named Danny Bell up to Hyde Park to meet the Roosevelts. Danny had just been appointed Acting Director of the Budget. Henry the Morgue introduced him to Mrs. James Roosevelt, the President's mother...
Generalissimo Joseph Stalin is getting an Ehrenhain (literally a "grove of honor" like those used by Teutonic tribes to worship Wotan). The Stalin Ehrenhain which is now being built by the Soviet Army in Treptow Park in Berlin's Soviet sector will be dominated by a huge pink marble statue of the Generalissimo. The entire installation will be surrounded by a Kremlinlike wall...
...foreign correspondent for the New York Evening Post when the Council on Foreign Relations* started Foreign Affairs and made him its managing editor. Six years later Armstrong became editor. With the help of one editorial associate and a secretary, Armstrong puts out the magazine in the Council's Park Avenue headquarters, across the street from the building recently purchased by the Russian Government. (Says Armstrong: "They keep the shades down...
...disposition of a milch cow . . . and [admired] Gus as if he were a bale of clover hay. . . . When Gus spent an evening at home she mooed with happiness." Gus liked the moos, but not as much as the moola. With an elephant borrowed from the city's amusement park, he hoisted himself into the circus business...
Winston Churchill, to whom admiring South Australian livestock men had sent a pair of white kangaroos, finally got around to the London Zoo in Regent's Park. But when he got there the pen was half-bare. The she-kangaroo had thrown herself against a fence and died...