Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduate of Webber College I challenge your statement in Oct. 5 issue that the most famed educational wanderer is a boys school. Since 1928 girls at Webber have studied in Boston during the fall months and migrated to Babson Park, Fla. each January for their winter semester. Starting with five students, Webber now has 62 daughters of fathers prominent in U. S. affairs who have concluded that Webber, at a cost of $1,550 per year, offers the best preparation to young women for future business and financial responsibilities...
Franklin Roosevelt began his week beside the Hudson River, spent his midweek beside the Potomac River and before the week was out had crossed the South Platte River. Wherever he was, he was in the midst of his campaign for reelection. By accident or otherwise, his visitors at Hyde Park included leaders of groups which are giving him strong backing: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of Manhattan, Monsignor Stephen Connolly of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York* and A. F. of L.'s William Green, who publicly promised that 90% of Labor's votes would be cast...
...Hyde Park Emil Hurja, the New Deal's No. i election dopester, worked out with Nominee Roosevelt a 5,000-mile campaign trip to cover as many doubtful states as possible. While they huddled over their maps and charts, red-headed Frank Murphy, High Commissioner to the Philippines and Democratic Nominee for Governor of Michigan, arrived. Not so happy are New Dealers in Michigan since Republican Senator Couzens took a drubbing in the primaries after announcing that he favored four more years of Roosevelt...
...assembled in a drizzle at the railroad station, Nominee Roosevelt paid tribute to Senator Murphy, killed last summer in an automobile accident, later drove off on a 45-minute inspection of park buildings and rock gardens built...
Year ago when the permanent plan went into effect, Banker Nichols grudgingly put the "Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation" legend on his bank statements as required by law. Under the legend he once wrote in appalling taste: "A thousand-and-more years before our Country's famous Hyde Park tenor made his premier appearance in front of the microphone, the principles underlying sound banking existed. They will always exist-not even the melodious croonings of an embittered and frustrated President can change them...