Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stayed on in France. He made his fortune as a private banker, built it up by investments in U. S. banks (Chase), railroads (Great Northern, Northern Pacific) and public utilities. He has given France a $5,000,000 art collection, a hospital, Napoleon's Park at Malmaison. Napoleon's famed Marshal's Table, all on the theory that art treasures should stay at home. France has given him the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor and honorary citizenship in Paris. His benefactions have made him Dartmouth College's Grand Old Man. Since 1927 his masons...
...Derby's purse, steadily began to ballyhoo the race into a social and sporting extravaganza. Now, 73, Colonel Winn as president of the American Turf Association operates not only Churchill Downs at Louisville, but Latonia, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, as well as Lincoln Fields and Washington Park outside Chicago...
Cavalcade, Mrs. Sloane's colt, prepared for his pair of spectacular victories last week by beating Singing Wood in the Hyde Park Stakes last year. But still other Derby material, notably Bazaar and Discovery, have shown heels to Cavalcade. Mrs. Sloane's High Quest is not entered in the Derby, but she may have three more horses in the race...
Besides owning horses, Colonel Bradley has owned tracks. He spent more than $1,000,000 improving the Fair Grounds at New Orleans, sold out in 1932 and bought heavily into Joseph E. Widener's Hialeah Park at Miami. His feelings about horses themselves are a strange mixture of sentimentality and practicality. "I love horses," he says, "and I'll always breed them. They're like children, needing the same care and treatment, subject to all sons of ailments. . . ." He thinks he was fondest of a filly named Bit of White, whose only claim to fame...
...Park Theater offers to its patrons "The Travelling Salesman...