Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week at the fall flower show of New York's Horticultural Society, the offspring of this union, a small, white, pansy-like orchid with a heart of deep maroon, was christened by John B. Lager, its flower godfather. Forty-eight hours earlier in the great library at Hyde Park, while two candles burned on a small improvised altar, Grandfather Franklin Roosevelt, seated in a great chair, had the joy of seeing a dark-haired baby girl, his eldest son's eight-month-old daughter, baptized. Henceforth child & orchid will bear the same name: Kate Roosevelt...
...more than proud grandfather who, the next evening, went down in triumph to board his special train at Hyde Park station. Some 300 neighbors were there to bid him farewell with cheers and placards. Shrieked one, "Roosevelt-46 States Honor Him! Dutchess County?'' Shrieked another, "As Maine Goes-So Goes Vermont...
...Cabinet, consulted Budget Director Bell, for a Budget has to be made up before Congress convenes on Jan. 5. To questions of newshawks about new Cabinet members, he answered by saying all that would have to wait. He found time, however, to dedicate a stone bench in Rock Creek Park as a memorial to late French Ambassador Jean Jules Jusserand, to make a radio speech opening Community Chest drives throughout the U. S., to make another in favor of peace on the occasion of the sailing of Secretary of State Hull and the U. S. delegation for the conference...
Just before leaving Hyde Park for his triumphal return to Washington (see p. 23), President Roosevelt sent his Secretary Marvin H. Mclntyre and two automobiles to nearby Poughkeepsie to meet a special train arriving from Manhattan. Off the train stepped Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State, Auxiliary Bishops Francis J. Spellman of Boston and Stephen J. Donahue of New York, the Cardinal Secretary's gentleman-in-waiting, Enrico Galeazzo, and two Catholic New Dealers, Joseph P. Kennedy and Frank C. Walker, with their wives. The party was whisked over to Hyde Park for luncheon followed by a brief...
...DURGIN PARK--Market Dining rooms for over sixty years. Quality food and service without equal...