Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...price above face value. Congress authorized the first such issue in 1892 for the Columbian Exposition, provided for 100,000 coins to be minted for the 1937 San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Celebration. The commemorative half dollar displays on one side a bear (Monarch II. Golden Gate Park grizzly), on the reverse side the bridge. Designer: Jacques Schnier...
...again assured honest business of his friendship but accused Wall Street of flooding the land with anti-New Deal literature paid for with stockholders' money. At week's end Nominee Roosevelt coasted into New York for live brief talks in upstate Republican territory, rested overnight at Hyde Park, set off to Washington whence after two days he planned to carry his message of Prosperity to hostile New England...
...entry into the city and his drive to the Stadium in a pouring rain which drove even his admirers from the streets. When Franklin Roosevelt followed five days later he had a balmy night and the streets were packed. At Detroit when Nominee Landon spoke at Navin Field ball park the temperature was 43° and barely 10,000 Republicans shivered in the grand stands. When Nominee Roosevelt spoke two nights later Cadillac Square was jammed with listeners and the illuminated thermometer shining down on them showed the temperature...
Four years ago whenever Herbert Hoover went home to the White House, the silk hat on his head covered a multitude of political worries. At the same time, whenever Braintruster Raymond Moley tramped up the terrace steps at Hyde Park, the crushed fedora on his wrinkled brow covered manifold plans for Herbert Hoover's downfall. Little did either of them then dream that in 1936 they would find themselves brothers under their hats. Yet last week Herbert Hoover, no longer President, spoke his mind in Philadelphia, and in Manhattan Raymond Moley, no longer a Braintruster, put his mind into...
...Smithsonian administers the U. S. National Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Freer Gallery of Art, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the National Zoological Park, a group of astrophysical observatories, a laboratory for studying the effect of radiation on organisms, a service which officially exchanges governmental and scientific documents with foreign countries. The National Museum comprises two buildings close by the Institution. Here many of Roosevelt I's African hunting trophies are realistically mounted. The Smithsonian building itself is the nation's inexhaustibly interesting attic, whose cherished and heterogeneous knick-knacks include Lindbergh's transatlantic plane...