Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration a wild program. Happy politician that he is, the President quickly summoned Senator Thomas to the White House. They shut the office door. They faced each other across a desk. They began talking-the unsmiling Oklahoma lawyer dead set on putting out more money, the genial Hyde Park squire equally determined to effect a friendly settlement by conciliation and compromise. Minutes ticked into hours. When they rose and said goodby, President Roosevelt had taken Senator Thomas completely into camp...
...surveying crews working on the drainage canal. He went to night school to learn his trade. In 1908 he was made engineer of the commission which laid out the Great Lakes-Mississippi waterway. Mayor until April 1935. he will not give up his presidency of the South Park Board which he has held since 1924. During his regime was built the great outer highway system along Chicago's south lakefront and Soldier Field...
Later in the week three students met in a house at Marianao, Havana suburb where Oriental Park racetrack is located. A raid by secret police resulted in their deaths. The youths sold their lives dearly, killing three policemen...
...little about the theory of art. Once a year he took out his restlessness in travel. His exhibitions were non-portable: a heroic statue of Lincoln at 21 before Fort Wayne's Lincoln National Insurance Co. building; an Indian hunter fountain in St. Paul's Cochran Memorial Park; a war memorial at Rome's American Academy; many a set piece in U. S. museums. Now 47, Paul Manship is a complete career man, with a socialite wife and four children. Last week for the first time in eight years he gave an exhibition, in Manhattan...
...Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt set out for a 7 a. m. canter through Washington's Potomac Park to see the cherry and magnolia trees in bloom. With her rode Elinor Fatman Morgenthau, wife of the Federal Farm Board chairman, and President Roosevelt's Secretary Marguerite Lehand. Mrs. Roosevelt's horse slid on the muddy bridlepath, fell to its knees. Mrs. Roosevelt was thrown into a mud puddle. Muddied but unhurt, she remounted, rode on until...