Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Chafee's article on the Narragansett Park flare-up contains an enlightening discussion of the legal issues involved. These points of law are interesting indeed, but, as pointed out in the article, they hardly attract public attention as do the dramatic issues. All over New England people are watching the Rhode Island drama with nothing short of amazement, and the reason they are amazed is that they are witnessing the breakdown of law and order...
...uncomfortable; only certain practical result, to give assurance that the U. S. would sit in with other signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty when they confer, probably within two weeks, on what to do about Japan. On the morning that the President reached Washington, after two days at Hyde Park, he called in Secretary Hull, Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis -who may well be the U. S. Conference delegate-and Sumner Welles...
...Author. Ernest Miller* Hemingway ("Hem" to his friends) has seen much of the war and violence he so aptly describes. Born July 21, 1898, at Oak Park, Ill., second of a family of six, he was only two when his father, a doctor who was also a sports enthusiast, handed him a fishing rod, was not yet in his teens when he graduated to shotgun and rifle. On long hunting trips in northern Michigan he was his father's regular companion. In other respects, he was not so filial. His father had hopes of his becoming a doctor...
What Franklin Roosevelt saw, as he drove in an open car along the pack-jammed waterfront, was part of the 16 mi. highway that shoots north along the sandy shore past the 1933 Fairsite, Soldier Field, Field Museum and Grant Park, juts first right then left and north again to cross the Chicago River and the Ogden Slip with the Tribune Tower looming high on the left,* keeps on to wind around swank Gold Coast's apartments and the Drake Hotel, then north once more on the express highway of Lake Shore Drive. It was at the Chicago River...
...about the football situation--what, as we have said with all these mingled elements the lights of Gotham presented a somewhat unfamiliar picture. We managed to get around a couple of the rotaries and then after a few moments of blind flying found ourselves inexplicably and inextricably in Central Park. A friendly soul had told us that the third right would bring us out but the third right seemed to be mainly sidewalk and the fourth right was distinctly a stone wall...