Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of State Hull once, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace twice. They deployed over the White House lawn, serenaded the President with Home on the Range, drank Mrs. Roosevelt's lemonade, showed such eagerness to shake the hand of a woman who has homes both in the country (Hyde Park) and city (Manhat tan) that Mrs. Roosevelt had to withdraw behind three White House aides. They made a pilgrimage to Mt. Vernon. Mrs. Arthur E. Brigden, 67, of Marathon, N. Y. announced that, after considerable research, she had discovered that Martha Washington was "a thorough housekeeper, looking after every detail...
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Claude C. Albritton, of Dallas, Texas, (Ph.D. Marshal); Henry G. H. Halvorson, of Huntington Park, California, (A. M. Marshal), Law School: Abraham R. Ginsburgh, of Wikes Barre, Pennsylvania. Divinity School: Arthur P. Colbourne, of Secretary, Maryland. Dental School: Charles M. Underwood, of New York City. Medical School: Daniel B. Dorman '32, of Beirut Syria. School of Public Health: Charles G. Hutter of Washington. Graduate School of Design: (including degrees in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning) Eustis Dearbon '32, of Sandwich, Graduate School of Business Administration: William S. Allen, of Winchester, Graduate School...
...hardfisted, onetime country banker, Robert L. Thornton. General manager of the Exposition is a onetime Dallas real estate man, William A. Webb. To start with they had the old State Fair grounds plus some 28 acres of condemned residential property, 200 acres in all. The old Fair Park stadium became the "Cotton Bowl," and the job of being bold enough to please the hearts of Texas' heroes, and to attract a profitable gate, began...
Fifty-two years ago the bright-eyed daughter of a Manhattan doctor took the lead in an amateur theatrical at Tuxedo Park, N. Y.'s Tuxedo Club, first U. S. country club. Inadvertently she did a double back roll when she was supposed to faint on a sofa. Last week at 80, Lady Charles Mendl, born Elsie de Wolfe, withered, bright-eyed Grand Old Woman of Franco-American socialites, was still doing back rolls, handstands and cartwheels in the garden of her Villa Trianon in Versailles to keep "young." And last week her prosperous, 31-year-old Manhattan decorating...
...starter flagged the field again. Slowing down and pushing up their goggles, the drivers of the 15 cars that had finished the race slowly became conscious of a roar other than the one made by their motors, that of the crowd to salute the winner. Louis Meyer of Huntington Park, Calif., who in 1933 became, with Tommy Milton, the only two-time winner of the Indianapolis race, had won it for the third time. His average speed (109.069 m.p.h.) was a new record for the event.. Driver Meyer waved three bruised fingers to salute the crowd, collected vouchers...