Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that the Roosevelt home at Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York was rented as the summer White House from the Roosevelts and that the U. S. Government paid $46,000 rental...
...might draw $200,000. Last week, in contempt of his contract with Madison Square Garden as well as of every principle of good sportsmanship, Champion Braddock signed a contract, approved by the Illinois State Athletic Commission, to defend his title against Joe Louis in Chicago's Comiskey Park on June 22. Madison Square Garden threatened it would go to court to stop the fight...
...abandonment was caused by budgetary restrictions. Most of the plants were sent to Atkin's Institution in Cuba, the roof green houses of the Biological Laboratory, and the Bussey Institution. The remaining stock was presented to Massachusetts State College, Boston Teachers College, Wellesly College, and the Boston Park Department...
...owner year ago incorporated him at $4,000, sold $1 shares to such folk as Jack Dempsey, Sally Rand, Jack Pearl (TIME, Feb. 3, 1936). The best toy, Tang Hao of Cavershawm Catawba, was, as usual, a Pekingese, a breed whose courage was demonstrated in Manhattan's Central Park last week when one of them, out of sheer pugnacity, committed suicide by attacking an Irish wolfhound. Other finalists were Torohill Smoky and the best terrier, a pert little wire-haired bitch named Flornell Spicypiece of Halleston...
...Winter may find himself outwitted, even if he holds back all snow, for the entries are coming in so well that the U.S.E.A.S.A. announces that it is making tentative plans to hold the meet anyhow, using shaved ice for the slope of the runway and the hillside. Park Carpenter, second vice-president of the Association, who is in Laconia making final arrangements for the championships, is still praying for snow. But if this fails to materialize, winter sport fans may witness the unique spectacle of an otherwise bare hillside bisected by a glittering, steep ribbon of snow, with...