Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ridgefield Park...
...from Norfolk. Each crate bore big black letters: "Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Stanford University. In care Twelfth Naval District." Mrs. Roosevelt fingered the curtains, made mental notes of replacements and rearrangements. Certainly, she would bring with her some of the early American reproductions made in her furniture shop at Hyde Park. Mrs. Hoover told her that she had had government photographers taking pictures of every room in the house. Likewise all White House furniture has been card-indexed, with a notation as to the history of each piece. The inspection over within an hour, Mrs. Roosevelt walked out, took...
Briskly Henry Ford marched into his Highland Park plant, where part of the Briggs operation is housed. Three hours later Briggs posted a notice of return to a guaranteed hourly wage, abolition of "dead time." Old employes were given two days to come back. Then general hiring would begin. "We'll have to have bodies," said Mr. Ford, "even if we have to make them ourselves...
...workman trimming a big tree in Tuscarawas Park at New Philadelphia, Ohio one day last week, suddenly gasped and stared. There, in a rain-filled crevice, 40 ft. above ground, alive and wriggling, lay a 7-in. catfish. Goggle-eyed with wonder, the sawyer carried it down, threw it in a nearby lake. The catfish swam swiftly away...
George Michael Cohan on the loose. When the shadow-boxing is over, remaining enigmas are: 1) What was the story in the park? 2) Who is Parker? 3) What did he want? 4') What was Pigeons and People all about? Only positive fact is the first-rate characterization of Parker as a superior indigent, expert at crying, bragging, weaseling, bullying, philosophizing, face-saving and putting everybody else in the wrong...