Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park a stream of visitors poured in & out of the President's mother's comfortable country seat: Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, who thought that additional taxation could be avoided next year; Utah's Senator King, who wanted the Government to buy more silver; NRAdministrator Johnson, who talked until midnight with the President about pulling NRA off the rocks. Tentative plan: to decentralize NRA's high command into three branches, executive, judicial, legislative...
...hysterical day last week the municipality of Asbury Park, N. J. laid plans to acquire the beached and blackened hulk of T. E. L. Morro Castle for a side show. Editors boomed out their alarm over the failure of men and machinery in a marine disaster that had taken 127 lives. President Roosevelt at Hyde Park talked hopefully of new fireproof construction laws at the next Congress which would prevent a repetition of such a holocaust. And in Manhattan the Department of Commerce's Steamboat Inspection service tried to get at the cause and circumstances of the wreck...
...Assembly had granted none of the Governor's requests. Voluntarily mills at Woonsocket, Saylesville and four other trouble spots closed and the Governor started a Communist round-up on his own authority. Though Federal troops were reported mobilizing in New York and New England, President Roosevelt at Hyde Park appeared to be in no rush to send them to Rhode Island...
Rain made the 6½-furlong straightaway that cuts diagonally across the main track at Belmont Park, N. Y. a brown belt of mud as 14 2-year-olds were saddled for the richest race in the world, the $100,000 Futurity. At the start, almost out of sight of the grandstand, Rosemont took the lead. Balladier, Chance Sun and Plat Eye caught Rosemont as the field crossed the main track. Then Joseph E. Widener's Chance Sun shot out ahead, opened a gap of four lengths between himself and Colonel Edward R. Bradley's Balladier...
...resigned nor is going to be 'kicked out,' at least for anything we have done so far. . . . This trip is not New Deal stuff, it is in the interests of scientific agriculture." For Brain Truster Tugwell's furtive departure President Roosevelt at Hyde Park had a different explanation: process servers were looking for him in a suit filed against the Department of Agriculture...