Word: parks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed bills creating Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee, by unanimous consent. (Bills went to the House...
...Reverend Charles Edwards Park, minister of the First Church Unitarian of Boston, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning...
...existence of fraternities and secret societies in public high schools. The 51 suspended leaders were all offenders against this law, of which the purpose is to stamp out snobbishness and secret practices, and of which parents are duly apprised by letter upon their sons' entrance at Oak Park High. All 51 had joined societies-four different Greek-letter brotherhoods that persistently, furtively, hugged their insignia and traditions despite attacks three years ago and in 1916, when Principal McDaniel was installed at Oak Park to stamp them out. A detective had been employed to "get the goods" on these brotherhoods...
According to the colorful Chicago Tribune, "By noon it was a dreary place, the campus of the high school. Many girls were crying, and some boys." There was a critical ball game scheduled for that day and virtually the whole Oak Park team was "fired." Some of the 51 went into legal conference to get a special injunction restraining the school board from taking action until after graduation day. Others went to other schools, tried to enroll and finish their year's work. Principal Mc-Daniel refused to comment. Board President George Harvey Jones said: "There is nothing sensational...
Engaged. Miss Constance Woolworth McCann, granddaughter of the late Frank W. Woolworth (Nickel and Dime Stores); to Wyllys Rosseter Betts Jr., of Manhattan and Tuxedo Park...