Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five murders and innumerable bank robberies, was supposed to have raided since he broke jail at Crown Point, Ind. March 3. Police in Peru and Auburn said he had stolen guns from them, too. Police in Chicago said they had been fired on by Dillinger at night in Schiller Park the week after he escaped. In a St. Paul apartment house two Federal detectives had let two gunmen and a woman slip through their fingers under a machinegun barrage. They claimed that Dillinger was one of the men, that a picture of him as a sailor and some...
...Stanley Evans, Highland Park, Mich. Negro: the National A. A. U. heavyweight boxing championship; outpointing Irwin Striebel of St. Louis, who outweighed him by 30 lb.; in St. Louis...
Died, Allen B. Cook. 85, gentleman farmer; after long illness: in Massena, N. Y. Mr. Cook's daughter, Nancy, is a close friend of Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt and her associate in the Valkill Furniture Shop at Hyde Park, N. Y., the Todhunter School in Manhattan...
When Sculptor Frederick William MacMonnies was commissioned (in the will of Mrs. Angelina Crane) to fashion a statue of Civic Virtue for Manhattan's City Hall Park, he modeled an upright youth spurning two coiled mermaids who represented Deceit and Disillusion. The unveiling in 1922 caused an unavailing delirium of protests from women's organizations and others which found, in the sex of Disillusion and Deceit and in their proximity to the youth's feet, an affront to womanhood. Glad of an opportunity to have fun, Manhattan newspapers exulted in lavish, impartial ridicule, made the incident...
...body as a whole, serious attention will surely be withheld. As for the M.M.C. & M.C., Lucius Beebe sends his best congratulations on "esprit de corps." And as for the NSL, try, try again. A weekly mass meeting would be welcomed by friend and foe of the Cause, alike. Hyde Park redivivus promises instruction and amusement for young and old. And let the watchword be Pax et Veritas. J. LeB. Boyle...