Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harry Thomas Thompson, 28, a Maryland farm boy who served one cruise with the Navy, was in the summer of 1934 jobless and spending his time in a small, disreputable park near the San Pedro, Calif, waterfront. There one hot August evening he made the acquaintance of plump, soft-spoken Toshio Miyazaki, who had learned excellent English as an exchange student at Stanford University, had later been assigned to his country's Intelligence Service. Toshio Miyazaki offered to put Harry Thomas Thompson in the way of earning some money. The job, at $500 per month, plus expenses and bonuses...
...Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton, both Democrats, were at the station to greet Colorado's distinguished guest. The party piled into automobiles and, with Nominee Landon leaning out to shake hands wherever his car stopped, motored through Denver and out to a rented 1,200-acre ranch near Estes Park, in Roosevelt National Forest, where the Landon family was to spend the summer. In the big, low, rambling ranch-house that afternoon newshawks found the Republican nominee stretched out before a log fire in breeches and windbreaker, scratching away on a yellow pad at his acceptance speech. He would have...
...normally ignore celebrities were at the railway station in thousands at 8:30 a. m. to greet the genuine Haile Selassie with roars of "Vive l'Empereur!". Many turned their plump Swiss backs on handsome young "Tony" Eden as he alighted. The Emperor, whisked to the Carlton Park Hotel, went at once into a huddle with his U. S., French and Swiss advisers. In this crucial hour His Majesty had need of all the cunning which carried him originally to the Ethiopian Throne. Close to the astute ear of Haile Selassie in Geneva were his famed Yankee, Everett Colson...
...Fleet Street editors scoffed at the cock & bull yarn some reporters had telephoned in. They said they had talked to an Irishman who said he had talked to a woman who said her little boy had been rescued from drowning in the duck pond of St. James's Park by a tall man in top hat and impeccable morning clothes who looked exactly like the Chancellor of the Exchequer. This Irish yarn seemed all the more unlikely because several men were said to have been standing nearby when the child fell in, while the top-hatted rescuer had sprinted...
...Baltimore money will not all be clear gain for Sculptor Fraser. Out of the $100,000 she must furnish materials, studio rent, wages of assistants and workmen, possibly will show only a small profit when the bronze generals are finally cast and unveiled in Baltimore's Wyman Park. Some other U. S. sculptors reported busy last week were...