Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park went Professor & Mrs. Felix Frankfurter for a visit. Franklin Roosevelt warned the press not to go "out on a limb" by predicting Dr. Frankfurter's appointment to the Supreme Court: this was just the Frankfurters' "annual visit." Staying off the limb, some observers wondered whether Host Roosevelt was perhaps explaining to faithful (except on the Court Plan) Felix Frankfurter why he could not be appointed...
...published rough plans, which Franklin Roosevelt sketched and initialed last February and Architect Henry J. Toombs of Atlanta trued up, for a five-room, one-story ''dream house" on the President's lately purchased, 70-acre tract next to his mother's estate at Hyde Park. In his rendered perspective drawings, Architect Toombs respectfully subscribed himself only as an "associate" of Architect Roosevelt (unlicensed). Comparison of Mr. Roosevelt's sketches with Mr. Toombs's finished plans revealed a fairly high degree of competence in the amateur, only minor improvements by the professional. Mr. Roosevelt...
Great fun had Baltimore wits last week as. after three weeks of rain, a crew of WPA workers resumed digging and scraping a desolate spot in Herring Run Park, hard by the city incinerator. News had got round that this project, a model yacht basin costing $40,000, of which the city was putting up $10,000, also included a polo field, WPA's first concession to the most luxurious U. S. sport...
...dignified Sun broke out with a series of poker-faced articles on WPA Polo: What It Costs To Play ("a moderately good polo pony can be bought for less than $7,500"). Sculptor Jack Lambert offered a bederbied trophy for a politicians' polo tournament. Reporters pestered Park Board President Frank Durkee by asking whether WPA would supply ponies and stabling...
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