Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BESSEMER, Ala. -- Approximately 350 men were idle today after Works Progress Administration employs constructing a storm sower in Roosevelt Park struck in protest of an order that a worker must both load and push his wheelbarrow. Previously each wheelbarrow had a crew of two men--one to load and one to push...
Holding aloft the costly ostensorium, which in a glass clip contained the Sacred Host-to Catholics the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ-Cardinal Mundelein gave to the 65,000 faithful the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament as lights in the Park blinked out and thousands of candles sprang into flickering glow. For a mercy, the rain held...
Colonel Ernest O. Thompson, chairman of the commission which prorates Texas oil production, last week went to Hyde Park to tell Franklin Roosevelt how confused the industry is: though crude oil production is adequately controlled by the Interstate Oil Compact, lack of control over refining has upset crude prices (TIME, Oct. 24). Saying he was against Government control, Mr. Roosevelt suggested extending the compact to refiners, offered to ask Congress to approve such an extension. As Colonel Thompson took this thought back to the mid-continent oil fields, the industry bitterly noted that the previous day the Anti-Monopoly Committee...
Last spring, as the New Friends of Music concluded their second successful season without benefit of Park Avenue patronage, Ira Hirschmann announced, for the season of 1938-39, that the usual array of chamber-music events would be augmented by 1) a brand-new, 36-man chamber orchestra, and 2) a conductor: Fritz Stiedry of Vienna's Volksoper and Leningrad's Philharmonic...