Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Changed its mind, joined the Senate in voting (221 to 124) to support at $12,000 per year a privately built library .at Hyde Park for Franklin Roosevelt's books and State papers. Admission to the grounds: 25?. Fumed Republican Dewey Short of Missouri: "Not even immortal Shakespeare or Milton or Wordsworth would have the unmitigated gall and brazen effrontery to ask that a monument be erected to them to house their precious pearls of wisdom before their death. . . . Egocentric megalomaniac!" Minnesota's Republican Knutson suggested the papers be brought to Washington so that future statesmen might learn...
...Fred Dankowske, a footloose youngster from Chicago, drifted to booming Salt Lake City. There he made a real-estate killing, fell in love with pretty Mary Alice Robins, who shared his passion for travel and scenery. On their honeymoon Mr. & Mrs. Dankowske clopped north to Yellowstone Park in a horse and wagon...
When the late Real-Estate Operator Louis Eckstein was its hovering angel, Ravinia Park, on the North Shore near Chicago, was one of the best spots in the U. S. for summer music. Sponsored now by a committee of Chicagoans, Ravinia is still good. Its opening week, fortnight ago, attracted the largest crowd in its history, more than 10,000 people. Last week, when bolt-upright, beaky, baldish Sir Adrian Boult, music director of British Broadcasting Corp., opened his second week with the Chicago Symphony, a heat wave melted the attendance. Those who braved the swelter heard, and lustily applauded...
...Manhattan's Advertising Club on Park Avenue, a man was making a speech. Suddenly, to the amazement of the audience, the mike in front of the speaker's mouth burst into music...
Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the National Capital Park & Planning Commission. Appointed professional adviser was liberal Dean Joseph Hudnut of the Harvard School of Design. Granted an appropriation of $40,000 and all aglow with its opportunity, the Commission made no bones about what was required: a museum of modern art for Washington...