Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, Arthur W. Well, Jr. '33 of Cedarhurst, New York David M. Well '33 of Chicago, Illinois, David Weld '34 of New York City, John U. White '34 of Bedford Hills, New York, Richard E. Wolf '35 of Bedford Bills, New York Richard E. Wolf '35 of Elgins Park Pennsylvania, John D. Woodberry '34 of Beverly...
...defeat of her half-brother also numbered the happy days of big, buxom, buoyant Dolly Curtis Gann as Second Lady of the Land. From a modest vine-clad house in Cleveland Park she had risen to queen it over Washington society. The nation's snickers at her battle for precedence over Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the late Speaker's wife, had left her unabashed. She it was who kept her brother Charlie's backbone stiff in demanding every honor due the Vice President. She had come to fancy herself as a political spellbinder and G.O.P. headquarters found...
...Human Values" In a voice which matches in timbre and persuasiveness that of an expensive Park Avenue physician, President Green, whose right nostril is broadened from a scar received in an Ohio coal mine, delivered the Federation's keynote: "During the Depression the A. F. of L. kept the faith. The movement has kept intact so that when happy days come again we will do all in our power to see that the American worker will get back the wages taken from him during the Depression. . . . Our fight is for a better manhood, for a better motherhood...
...Stores last week. Henry Charles Lytton, now 86, started the first store 46 years ago with $12.700 capital. He spent $2,500 for fixings, $3.500 for advertising. In March 1929, when the Hub Stores were reported doing a $10,000,000-a-year business they were sold to Fashion Park Associates. Inc., for stock then worth $7,000,000, now worth i/'iooth as much at market prices. How much it cost the Lyttons to buy back their stores was not disclosed...
...Just a small party. Lord and Lady Ferncliffe will be here, two dear friends of ours. Yes. Dinner at Eight." Built on a frame similar to Grand Hotel and staged by Sam Harris who has almost outdone Herman Schumlin in elaborate settings, the piece gets under way in the Park Avenue apartment of Mrs. Jordan, shifts to Oliver Jordan's downtown oillce, then to the home of the Packards, and back again to the Jordan...