Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Descending upon a Mrs. Peter Grobler, wife of a South African delegate, they asked her about lions and particularly if cinemas about lions are accurate. "Lions are really not ferocious animals at all!" smiled Mrs. Grobler. "In our Kruger National Park lions will just stand and look at you with as much interest as you have in them. My daughter says one lion came so close to her that she thinks she could have powdered its nose...
Believing that Chicago citizens are holding out $200,000,000 in taxes due. the teachers moved independently last week to get $20,000,000 owing them. They put on badges labeled "Unpaid Teachers," held a mass meeting in Grant Park. They demanded that State's Attorney John A. Swanson investigate and prosecute individuals and organizations engaged in "tax strikes." (They mentioned the Association of Real Estate Taxpayers as a prominent example.) They demanded that Federal District Attorney George Emmerson Q. Johnson prosecute taxpayers who claimed credit in income tax returns for local taxes not paid. Should appeals fail...
...second week of August, more than 1,200. Last year's epidemic spread from New York into New England, touched other parts of the country lightly, ran a three-month course. For those who feared that hot weather would bring another epidemic this year, Director William Hallock Park of the Bureau of Laboratories of New York's Department of Health had reassuring words last week. Said he: "Experience of health authorities all over the world indicates that a community which has suffered an extensive outbreak of poliomyelitis one year will escape a recurrence for from five...
...Manhattan for several weeks. Scene was the old Church of St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie, where Peter Stuyvesant lies buried. Medicine was represented by mysterious, some say hypnotic Dr. Edward Spencer Cowles, 52, son-in-law of William Gibbs McAdoo, fashionable neurologist, psychiatrist, director of the Park Avenue Hospital where died Actress Jeanne Eagels of an overdose of heroin and rich young William E. Swift of Chicago by suicide (TIME, June 9, Sept. 1, 1930). The Episcopal Church was represented by the conservative vestry of St. Mark's, and somewhere in the background by New York...
...Nick, the 800-lb. blue gnu in Detroit's zoological park, is a bad actor. He has killed one of his mates, two of their calves. Last week Big Nick was in another bad humor: his new mate had just presented him with another calf. Gus Mott, 63-year-old farmer turned zookeeper, feared Big Nick less than he feared the big ostrich hen that lived in the next pen. One day last week the ostrich turned on Keeper Mott, raised her horny foot to strike. Keeper Mott ran, vaulted the wall, landed on hands & knees in the gnus...