Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told interviewers.* "The highest ideal I could hold up before our boy was to grow to be like his father, straight and honorable, just and kind, an upstanding American." She shared her son's political successes only from a distance, never obtruding herself into his spotlight. The Hyde Park estate is legally hers until her death but she has made it a home and a refuge for her boy. She still worries about his health, warns him to wrap up when going out in the cold, busies herself about his small comforts. When he returned to Manhattan from Miami...
...week's conferences in Mr. Roosevelt's Manhattan home began with French Ambassador Paul Claudel on War Debts, with Canadian Minister William Herridge on tariff reciprocity. After an overnight stop at his Hyde Park home, Mr. Roosevelt motored on to Albany to attend the legislative correspondents' annual dinner and political burlesque. He laughed uproariously when a "Roosevelt" asked a "Smith": "Well, Al, what do you think my administration will need most?" And was told, "a four-leaf clover, Frank...
Back amid the restful expanse of the Hyde Park estate overlooking the Hudson, Mr. Roosevelt spent five hours talking second-string patronage with his political prime minister, Jim Farley. Jesse Isador Straus, Claude Bowers, Henry Morgenthau Jr., James Michael Curley, Howard Bruce, Homer Cummings, Clark Howell, John Cohen were some of the names the President-elect juggled about on paper to see how they might fit into the new administration. William Hartman Woodin, the new Secretary of the Treasury, arrived from Manhattan to discuss the banking situation in the light of the Maryland moratorium...
When she was 26, Sara Delano married James Roosevelt. He was 50, a widower with one son, James Jr., who after a minor diplomatic career died in 1927. James Roosevelt took his bride across the Hudson to the Hyde Park house where Franklin was born 51 years ago. He and his mother nearly died as the result of an overdose of chloroform. In his nursery he first met and played with his cousin Anna Eleanor Roosevelt who later became his wife. With his well-to-do parents, he made frequent trips abroad, generally to Nauheim where his elderly father took...
...Manhattan's big National City Bank. It was reported that the resignation of Charles E. Mitchell as chairman of the bank was suggested by President-elect Roosevelt. William H. Woodin, incoming Secretary of the Treasury, was said to have conveyed Mr. Roosevelt's views from Hyde Park to Wall Street...