Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With small appetite for luncheon, the most puzzled statesmen in Europe gathered in the dining room of Geneva's Hotel Carlton Park last Monday noon. In theory they were there to attend the League of Nations Council, discuss 19 different subjects. Actually they were there to try to do something about the continuance of Sanctions against Italy, now that Benito Mussolini had thrust the conquest and annexa tion of Ethiopia under their noses as an accomplished fact...
...last week the electors met in Madrid's El Retire Park under the scorching glass roof of the Crystal Palace. With 30 Monarchists abstaining and 115 Catholics casting blank ballots, they overwhelmingly elected Manuel Azaña President on the first vote...
...Died. Park Trammell, 60, longtime junior U. S. Senator from Florida; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington. Onetime (1913-17) Governor of Florida, never defeated for public office in 36 years of active political life, he became Senator a month before the U. S. entered...
...indeed. A lot of vacuous material is handled in a devil-may-care fashion, but the effect usually falls short of amusing. A soapy soap heiress (Bette) falls in love with a surly reporter (George Brent). She proposes to him in an up-side-down machine in an amusement park (where Bette is escaping from her normal position), in a manner so abrupt as to be calculated to take George's and your breath. The female proposal is standby number one. The next is a business marriage in which the wedded couple don't mean business. Then there are those...
Memorial Hospital will soon abandon its 49-year-old quarters on the upper west side of Central Park, either to a hospital organization not too finicky about modernism or to an apartment house promoter...