Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected that President Roosevelt, their national secretary Son James Roosevelt, and 10,000 delegates would attend their second national convention in Milwaukee. Last week some 1,500 delegates showed up, but not President Roosevelt, busy with Congress in Washington, nor Son James, ill with a sore throat at Hyde Park. Sadly disappointed, but still hoping that Son Franklin Jr. might appear, the delegates sat down to listen to a speech by Pennsylvania's Governor George H. Earle. Midway in his speech a lanky youth of 19 stepped out on the flag-decked platform unannounced, sidled toward a chair. With...
Born in Oakland, Calif. in 1915, son of a laundry wagon driver, Donald Budge began to play tennis at 8, taught by his elder brother Lloyd who sawed off a racket for him to play with, on the dirt courts of a public park. His first tennis costume was a pair of blue overalls and a khaki cowboy hat. Lloyd Budge, who became good enough to be tennis coach at St. Mary's College, beat Brother Donald regularly until 1933. That year the younger Budge, not yet 18, won the California Championship for men. A diffident, stringy, surprisingly agile...
George W. Rothschild, 18, of 2142 Lincoln Park West, Chicago, Ill.; Francis W. Parker School; son of Edwin Rothschild, stock broker; had high scholarship ranking and was editor of the school paper...
Robert D. Nuner, 18, of 710 Park avenue, South Bend, Ind.; Central High School; son of the late John F. Nuner, Superintendent of Schools in South Bend; ranked first in his class, and was president of Senior class...
Then followed a performance which, for sophisticated spectators in the crowd of 40,000 that jammed the wooden grandstand and bleachers of Good Time Park at Goshen, N. Y., stamped Greyhound as the greatest trotter seen on a U. S. track since Peter Manning, more than a decade ago. Stride by stride through the backstretch he cut down Warwell Worthy's lead. On the turn into the homestretch he passed her, swinging out, and the two came into the straightaway neck & neck. A faint cloud of dust, raised by hoofs and wheels, lengthened and faded as the sulkies drew...