Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throughout the island were locked up under Government seal. But what, the opposition Press wanted to know, was to be done about their accomplices? Was there one law for Haitians, another for Yanquis? Last week U. S. prestige definitely fell when Collector of Customs David P. Johnson of Hyde Park, Mass., an efficient, frugal man who had been stationed in Haiti twelve years, confessed to cheating Haiti in return for bribes from the Brothers Zrike...
...Kelly it was. The sun had not set before Edward Joseph Kelly, 57, chief engineer of the Sanitary District and president of the South Park Board, was sworn in as Chicago's World's Fair Mayor. Acting Mayor Frank Corr was glad to retire to his Aldermanic seat...
Englewood got up a five-piece band, led a parade to Hyde Park High School to gain recruits. Unsuccessful, the marchers proceeded to the home of Acting Mayor Frank J. Corr, crying "Pay our teachers!'' and flourishing banners inscribed "Teachers want R. F. C. payroll loans at 3%. No Banks. . . . Sixty million dollars was paid to the unemployed. What did the teachers...
...high-school principals from School Superintendent William J. Bogan went the word: "Hold the fort and suppress, as far as you can, any insurrection." At nonstriking Morgan Park, student R. O. T. C. members stood guard...
...Secretary of Legation at Florence and Rome, sister of onetime (1902-08) U. S. Ambassador to Germany Charlemagne Tower; in Lucerne. An aging, dim, tremendously "important" personage in Roman society, she gave the city her magnificently landscaped Villa Sciarra in 1930 for use as a public park. That was soon after energetic, beauteous Mrs. John Work Garrett (who last week lectured on art before the King & Queen) had arrived in Rome, begun to displace other U. S. social arbiters. The handsome call Benito Mussolini made to thank Mrs. Wurts for her present was rich compensation for the fading glory...