Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Before his return to Washington Franklin Roosevelt, Shriner and 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason, had promised to attend the Masonic ceremony at which two of his sons, James and Franklin Jr., were to become 3rd degree Masons. Accompanied by his mother, the President entered a car at Hyde Park and started for Manhattan under heavy escort. Instead of driving at the usual 50 m.p.h. clip, the motorcade never once exceeded 30 m.p.h. The 75-mile trip took nearly three hours. At the edge of New York City, 350 police took over from State Troopers. Behind 15 motorcycle policemen...
...things that Mr. King means to alter in order to get better terms for Canada, and he is temperamentally far more willing to make trade alliances outside the Empire if they are to Canada's advantage. Day before President Roosevelt returned to Washington from Hyde Park, Prime Minister King arrived to look over the ground. At the station he was greeted by Undersecretary of State Phillips and the President's Naval Aide. Also on hand was the British Ambassador, Sir Ronald Lindsay, anxious to watch the Canadian who London feared might throw over the Empire as a trade...
...most insignificant of local elections. Because New York is the home State of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his political generalissimo. James A. Farley, its election of Assemblymen last week provided such partisans with a bare bone for gnawing. The President's part was to sit at Hyde Park and serve in silence as a rabbit's foot to bring luck to Democratic candidates. The part of the Postmaster General was to serve, in anything but silence, as the donkey's head. As chairman of both State and National Democratic Committees, he was confident that Democrats would elect...
Paying his first visit to the U. S., British Novelist James Hilton (Lost Horizon, Goodbye, Mr. Chips,) announced: "I want to see the obvious things in America." Driving down Manhattan's Park Avenue next day he nearly ran over a policeman with a drawn revolver, was warned to keep his distance because there might be "some shooting." Popeyed, Novelist Hilton watched more policemen closing in, heard that bandits had just robbed swank Pickslay Co.'s jewelry store of $15,000 in loot...
With Bob Playfair lost to the team by sickness, Coach Mikkola has withdrawn his harriers from the annual Intercollegiates, marking the first time in over four decades that Crimson runners have not been represented in the lineup at Van Cortland Park...