Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Settling back in his chair at Hyde Park, Franklin Roosevelt, master politician, last week delivered to the press a lecture on political morality. It was "immoral," he said, for some 20,000 Republicans in Idaho to have voted in the Democratic primary to nominate Representative D. Worth Clark over New Dealish Senator James P. Pope (TIME, Aug. 22). Such crossing of party lines, he said, defeated the purpose of the primary system, because members of one party could pick puny opponents for their own party's candidates to beat. As in Idaho, it would be "immoral" for Republicans...
President Conant '14, made news this summer by taking a trip to Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada, and indulging in mountain climbing...
...Idaho's Senator Pope (New Dealer), beaten for renomination by Representative D. Worth Clark and a last-minute blizzard of religious pamphlets, appeared in Hyde Park last week seeking Administration backing to run as an independent in November. Seeking the same thing: Representative-reject Maury Maverick of San Antonio, Texas...
...Acting Mayor William B. Duggan refused them the city's welcome. But Dr. MacCracken greeted them warmly, as did New York's Mayor Fiorello H. La-Guardia and three New Deal officials, led by Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. From nearby Hyde Park Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt came to address the delegates, became so interested that she returned to crochet and listen at two more sessions...
...Bespectacled Sydney Wooderson, 124-Ib. Briton who holds the world's record for a mile (outdoors): a new world's record for a half-mile (1:49.2); at Hotspur Park, London. On the way, Runner Wooderson also broke the record for 800 metres...