Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their treasury to provide strike benefits for 300,000 strikers, their leaders intimated that, of course, the Relief Administration would feed them. Manufacturers promptly emitted a deep and throaty growl at Government-financed strikes. Last week before going to consult with the President at Hyde Park, Mr. Hopkins did his best to still this protest. Said...
...back and took him aside for a talk in whispers. Afterward the General bantered with newshawks: "We have had only a slight misunderstanding as to the timing of the new plan. . . . I'm going off for a vacation of two weeks and then I'm going up to Hyde Park and talk over the final reorganization. . . . That's all there's to it! Nothing serious...
...single sweep a special train carried President Roosevelt to Carrollton, III for the funeral of Speaker Henry T. Rainey, brought him back to Washington again after 30 minutes in the Rainey parlor. Two days later, the President left the White House again, this time for Hyde Park and his mother's home where he will remain until Washington cools...
...months' leave from his job in a London sports shop, turned seriously to tennis, which he had taught himself on a public court in London by hitting a ball against a wall. By the time the six months were over, he had won a minor tournament at Chiswick Park, trounced Italy's No. 1, Baron Morpurgo, at Wimbledon, been selected for England's Davis Cup team, and defeated Jack Crawford in their first meeting at Bournemouth. That autumn Perry toured the U. S. and South America with a British team, winning the Argentina championship. The next year he reached...
Specializing in quick turnover at low prices, Hearn's is probably the cheapest of Manhattan's big department stores. For every customer from Park Avenue, there are 100 from Third Avenue who crowd into Hearn's to buy wool overcoats at $10, dresses at $2.99, neckties at 39¢. But in two years President Levin has run up Hearn's sales from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000. Last week he confidently predicted that for 1934 they would be $15,000,000?nearly a fifth of the gross sales of Macy's, biggest U. S. department store...