Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rockefeller Jr. last week went to Versailles for the unveiling of a stone tablet inscribed in gilt letters: "At the close of the World War a citizen of the United States of America, John D. Rockefeller Jr., contributed by his magnificent liberalities to the restoration of the chateau and park of Versailles, the palaces of Trianon and their gardens, the Cathedral of Reims and the château of Fontainebleau. In inscribing here the name of John D. Rockefeller Jr. the government of the Republic has wished to show the gratitude of the French people...
Twenty-five years ago Louis Eckstein, rich Chicago merchant and real estate operator, began sponsoring summer orchestra concerts at Ravinia Park, 37 acres of woods he owned on suburban Chicago's North Shore. Later, not instruments but voices made Ravinia famed. The Ravinia Opera which Louis Eckstein produced, signing up the best artists, casting them, supervising every production detail, cost him some $1,500,000 before Depression halted it four years ago (TIME, April 11, 1932). Patron Eckstein, who kept hoping to revive Ravinia, died last winter. Last week there was orchestra music once more in the open-sided...
...idea of cutting Ravinia's 37 acres into lots, at $10,000 an acre, when a delegation of 25 young Chicago business and professional men went to her with what they convinced her was a feasible plan for summer music. She agreed to let them have her Park for concerts by the Chicago Symphony, provided they would permit her to pass upon the list of conductors. With Banker Willoughby George Walling as chairman, the group quickly raised $30,000 in guarantees. Since the Chicago Symphony was also scheduled for free concerts in Grant Park, sponsored by the City...
Fifty years ago last week, in the Park Row composing room of the New York Tribune, a bearded young German machinist named Ottmar Mergenthaler sat at an odd machine which looked like a cross between a power loom and a punch press. Beside him stood the Tribune's Editor Whitelaw Reid. As Ottmar Mergenthaler lightly tapped out letters on a keyboard before him, Mr. Reid heard the tinkling of brass type matrices falling into place. The rack of matrices was shunted to a bubbling pot of lead inside the machine. As Editor Reid looked on, Machinist Mergenthaler touched...
...hotel, for almost by definition cooperators are not affluent. Since Co-operation is a Cause as well as a system of economics, the delegates did not go in for the usual convention revelry of profit-making businessmen. They swam with their ladies in Lake Minnewaska. They celebrated at Glenwood Park. They inspected the only co-operative in Glenwood, a filling station. They stayed away from the slot-machines in the hotel bar, one cooperator crisply observing: "Slot-machines are distinctly not co-operative." They were there to talk the theory & practice of cooperation, and that is what they...