Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brothers, John, 23. and Charles, 16. sons of Dr. Walter Niles who lives around the corner from the President on East 64th Street. The seagoing President ordered the Coast Guard specially mobilized to search for these neighbors. ¶Secretary of the Treasury Woodin was an overnight guest at Hyde Park. He assured newshawks that currency inflation was not even being contemplated at present. Another Presidential visitor was Budget Director Douglas who was instructed to keep regular 1935 government costs below $2,500,000,000. A third caller was Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, escorted by Governor Harrison...
...summers they bought a big, airy place on a lake near Eagle River, Wis., spent their winters in a remodeled colonial brick home on Ellis Avenue. In 1922 Ed Kelly, in addition to his job as the Sanitary District's chief engineer, was appointed to the South Park Board, soon became its president. Under him Grant Park and the outer highway system were developed, the Stadium completed, the old Fine Arts building in Jackson Park restored for the Rosenwald Museum of Science & Industry. If George Brennan had lived, that shrewd old Democratic boss might well have run his good...
Since then First Baseman Lou Gehrig has played in every game in which a Yankee team has stepped out on a ball park. Last week he reached the total of 1,308 consecutive games, beat Scott's record. Not counted toward his record were Yankee exhibition games and 19 World Series games. During that amazing run Gehrig, who never wore a hat, over coat or vest until he was famous, has knocked out four home runs in one game (1932), 47 in a season (1927), won the title of the American League's most valuable player...
...because some of the horses are certain to have been drugged. Once dosed, a horse needs repeated doses to be any good at all. But few realized the extent of U. S. horse doping until last month when U. S. narcotic agents arrested a gang of horsemen at Arlington Park, near Chicago, for illegal possession and transportation of narcotics, claimed proof that more than 200 horses had been drugged on U. S. tracks this year. Three of those arrested, stable boys who had sold heroin, were last week given jail sentences of one to three years. Ten others were indicted...
...Menlo Park, Calif, last week Leon F. Douglass, inventor, proudly told the Press a shocker. He had wanted someone for an acting job. The job was to play opposite a 12-ft. octopus in an underwater "death" struggle which he wanted to film with his "inverted periscope" cinecamera. Inventor Douglass' pretty daughter Florence, 17, volunteered. First time she dove into the tank the octopus was unimpressed. Next time the monster, as desired, slithered its eight long tentacles around her body, glued them tight with each one's double row of suckers. Father Douglass filmed breathlessly, finished his reel...