Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside Congress: He lives with his family in an unpretentious house at Takoma Park, Md. when Congress is in session. His boys are named Vernon and Willis. One of his girls is named Lucille. The girl twins are called Unie Mae and Versie Fae, in memory of his university. Unie is married. The Fraziers keep no servants. He drives a black Studebaker sedan. When some one else is using it, he takes a street car. He does not own dress clothes, has never been to a White House function. Social intercourse outside his family interests...
...opposite side of the island for the ceremony of setting the first presidential foot on Hawaiian soil. Under leis the smiling President debarked, was met by a great brown & yellow crowd which knew little of the U. S. custom of cheering a great man. A drive through Hawaii National Park brought Visitor Roosevelt to the crater of Kilauea. There he tossed in a bunch of ohelo berries to appease Pele, goddess of volcanoes...
DOUGLAS BOYD Highland Park...
Died. Rt. Rev. William Frederic Faber, 74, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Montana; of drowning: in Paradise Creek, Glacier National Park, Mont. Search parties found his body two days after the Bishop, an ardent mountain-climber, had left for a walk...
...Mexico City's Balderas Street, few blocks from Central Park, stands a big, modern, five-story Y. M. C. A. building. It used to be chocked full daily by 3,400 members having fun at concerts, lectures, sports. Last week a visitor might have wandered through every one of its 75 bedrooms, through its grand hall, its two gymnasiums, its barbershop, swimming pool, library, restaurant and met not a living soul...