Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Hyde Park to Chicago went President Roosevelt on a moment's notice last week to defend his $300,000,000 cut in veterans' pensions before the 15th annual convention of the American Legion. His friends advised him not to make the trip because: 1) resentful legionaries who had borne the brunt of his Economy Act might subject him to an indignity; 2 ) letters had turned up in the White House mail "daring" him to show his face at the convention; 3) Chicago was such a notoriously bad city in which to guard a President that none...
...Henry Herbermann, 55, a hard, dark chunk of a man who began life as a tough waterfront youngster in Pennsylvania R. R.'s Jersey City yards, rose to be chief clerk, went into the trucking business, moved a whole German U-boat into Manhattan's Central Park for Liberty Loan speeches, bought up the shipless Export company in 1920 for $65,000. His friends now include Egyptian royalty, from whose stables he has acquired fine Arabian horseflesh (see cut). An older, even more valuable friend, with whom for years he has played poker, is Thomas Ventry...
Local Communists had announced that they would build a brick obelisk in Fraternity Park and place therein the ashes of one Julio Mella, a Red assassinated in 1929 allegedly by agents of Cuba's detested President Gerardo ("Butcher") Machado. If trouble should break out at the funeral it would give the Army a chance to shoot Reds. President Grau officially refused the Communists permission to build the obelisk, but the Army let Red bricklayers rush it to completion overnight...
...managership competition for the short cross-country season, which is over after the ICIA Meet in Van Cortland Park. New York City, Monday. November 13, is still open to all Freshmen. The winner will get his freshman numerals this year and in his senior year will be Varsity manager. This year for the first time, the track and cross country managerships have been divorced. Formations Freshmen were admitted to the track managership competition...
...School of City Planning is the fist of its kind in the United States and is under the direction of Professor Howard K. Menhinick. In addition to lectures by him, addresses will also be given by Jay Downer, Chief Engineer of the Westchester County Park Commission, Charles W. Eliot, grandson of Harvard's late President and former Director of the Planning Commission of Washington...