Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...municipal bankruptcy bill by which bankrupt towns and cities may, with the consent of a Federal District Court and 75% of their creditors, compromise their debts to get back on their financial feet. Good news was this for many a ruined town. Such municipalities as Atlantic City, Miami, Asbury Park, Asheville, Flint, Pontiac, Hendersonville (N. C.), Wilmington, Mobile, and Astoria (Ore.) were expected soon to reorganize their debt structure under its terms...
...Tell by Mrs. Arnold Rothstein (Fox) has the distinction of the longest title out of Hollywood this year. It purports to be a biographical sketch of Arnold Rothstein, a notorious gambler whose murder, in Manhattan's Park Central Hotel in 1928, remains unsolved to this...
...John Hay Whitney's three-year-old Singing Wood: the Withers Stakes; when the favorite, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's High Quest, stumbled at the start and threw his jockey; on a sloppy track, at Belmont Park. ¶ S. L. Froelich's Sealyham terrier Gunside Babs of Hollybourne: Best in Show against 2,827 entrants in the Morris and Essex Kennel Club's dog show, biggest outdoor all-breed event ever held in the U. S.; at Madison...
...year-old rider lay on his deathbed in a Long Island hospital, but neither Mrs. Sloane nor the physicians she sent to tend him realized it when the Spring meeting of the Westchester Racing Association opened at flowery Belmont Park four days later.* Flecked by tragedy, Mrs. Sloane's colors continued their phenomenal gallop from prize to prize. In the 41st running of the Toboggan Handicap, Belmont's opener, Mrs. Sloane's favorite horse, Okapi, was entered. Mack Garner was up -"Colonel" Mack Garner since he had won the Kentucky Derby on Cavalcade two weeks before. Riding...
Come What May (by Richard F. Flournoy; Hal Skelly, producer). In 1896 Chet Harrison was full of plans. He and Eve would go to Yellowstone Park for their honeymoon, build a house of their own. Possibly he would get that better-paying job as typesetter for the New Orleans Picayune. The Yellowstone Park trip is given up when Eve's father is killed in a buggy accident. They go to live in her mother's house. Patient, cheerful Chet is only too glad to forsake the Picayune job because he wants to be on hand when...