Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leads the rest of Europe in Boy Scouts, got the Jamboree for that reason. Of the 380 U. S. Scouts in Hungary last week most traveled on their earnings & savings, some at their parents' expense, none on Scout funds. Greatest of Scout Jamborees was the Third at Arrowe Park, near Birkenhead, England in 1929. To that boomtime Jamboree went 1,300 U. S. Scouts and a total of more than 50,000 to make "the greatest gathering of boys of which there is any record...
Died. Karl Cortlandt Schuyler, 56, Denver oilman and lawyer, U. S. Senator from Colorado during the last short-term session of Congress, onetime attorney for Henry M. Blackmer, fugitive Teapot Dome witness; of injuries suffered July 17 when he was struck by an automobile in Manhattan's Central Park; in a Manhattan hospital. Although he had a broken pelvis and internal injuries, he tried to refuse hospitalization after the accident, gave a fictitious name. No one suspected his identity until he disclosed it few days before his death in order to summon his wife...
...last year, retained his championship in the closing and perhaps closest race of the afternoon, when after having caught a crab at the start, he drew up to the front and sped across the finish line of the short 300-yard sprint. He was closely followed by J. G. Park, who had qualified for this race by winning the men's Novice Singles, and by S. D. Peirce '32, Frame's time of 1 minute and 1 second is short only three seconds of his record time of last year...
...Park's excellent time in the first of Friday's events, the novice singles, one minute, three seconds, gave him the victory over W. H. Holcombe, Harvard Varsity bow oar, who caught a crab a few strokes from the finish line. Park took this race from the winners of the five preliminary heats on Thursday, which desposed of a record turnout for one event. His brother, T. L. M. Park captured the men's broad compromise battle in fine style. Holcombe started a favorite for the novice singles sprint, as he turned in remarkable time...
...Novice Singles -- 1st. J. G. Park; 2nd. W. H. Holcombe. Time...