Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heel city and gave it desperately needed equipment, scores of new school buildings, sewage plants and incinerators, $7,000,000 worth of snow-removal equipment, more than double the number of playgrounds and dental clinics for children, new fire equipment that cut fire losses $2,000,000. His Park Commissioner Robert Moses (who replaced five such commissioners, one in each borough) laid out nearly 5,000 acres of new parks and two new municipal bathing beaches. His city law department cleaned up back litigation, much of it 15 years old, some of it nearly 30, reduced recoveries in suits against...
...dwells in rocky, mountain burrows on the islands of Haiti and Cuba only. A victory for any U. S. zoologist is the capture, transportation and sustenance of a solenodon over any length of time. Since October 1935, when Washington's last solenodon died, New York's Zoological Park has had the only one in the U. S. New York's solenodon, a female, is one of a pair purchased in Santiago, Santo Domingo. The price, $100 each, was really a courtesy gesture. Collectors have asked (but not received) $10,000 for a solenodon. Shortly after the trip...
...nervous and physical exhaustion resulting from grief over the death of Jean Harlow, in Hollywood; Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio, 74, recovering rapidly from what he called "disturbances of old age," in Brescia, Italy; Federal Judge Florence Ellinwood Allen, of a fractured ankle suffered while trout fishing, in Estes Park. Colo...
They Won't Forget (Warner Bros.). On Confederate Memorial Day (April 26) the little town of Flodden, Ga., takes a half holiday. In the town park, a handful of tottering Civil War veterans doze and chatter while they wait to march in the parade. At the Buxton Business College classes are dismissed early and the school's principal is surprised when one of the girls, pretty Mary Clay (Lana Turner) comes back to the classroom to get a vanity case she has forgotten. At the town cemetery, the show-going old Governor pays sincere tribute to the dead...
...Conference which many delegates were determined to develop into a frontal attack on Fascism, there might have been likelier promoters than Churchman Brown, the scion of the banking Brown Brothers who married Anne Spencer Morrow and Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who lives well on Park Avenue in Manhattan, and planned after the Conference to golf with other members of the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews. Last week Dr. Brown was far less in evidence than such U. S. churchmen as Union's passionate Reinhold Niebuhr or deliberate Henry Sloane Coffin, Princeton Theological Seminary's John Alexander Mackay, Presiding...