Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress: Dick Kleberg is three distinct things. He is a Personality-a leathery, lean-hipped, aloof, still faintly fabulous character who since he first drove up to the Wardman Park Hotel in one of the King Ranch's stripped hunting Fords, has spent his free time with his family, playing golf (in the low 70s), and avoiding newspapermen. He is a conscientious worker for himself and other farmers, who listens patiently to Congressional oratory, does his bit against oleomargarine and other bug bears of the range, never misses a meeting of his sole committee, Agriculture. Finally...
...President of the United States last week enjoyed himself in the role of country squire at Hyde Park. He gave out one formal statement, expressing his hopes that the new Wages & Hours law would work, and that employers doing intrastate business would comply with its spirit. For the rest he drove in his car through the woodland roads of his estate, watching his trees grow, and enjoyed the squirely duty of receiving visitors. No ordinary squire, he naturally had callers of no ordinary distinction...
When questioned about the incident by reporters at Hyde Park, President Roosevelt recalled that superpatriots had once objected to a replica of the gold Presidential seal which was and is still embedded in the floor of the White House entry. On that occasion Roosevelt I decreed that the seal was no flag, could not be desecrated by visitors walking across...
...HYDE PARK, N. Y.--Harry Hopkins, Federal Relief Administrator, indicated tonight after a series of conferences with President Roosevelt that relief expenditures may be slashed during the next fiscal year. Asked what recommendations he would make as to new appropriation, he observed...
...defense before a hostile court, Henriette won acquittal, went to the U.S., taught in a fashionable girls' school in Manhattan. She married Henry Field, a preacher-writer ten years her junior, and for two decades, until her death in 1875, reigned as a famous hostess in a Gramercy Park salon frequented by William Cullen Bryant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Samuel Morse, Fanny Kemble...