Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Squire & the King. What said the Squire of Hyde Park, schooled at Groton and Harvard, to the Lord of Arabia, schooled in the Koran, the desert, the raid, the running horse, the harem? The only direct news was official, and it was sparse...
...appreciate your work." Few hours earlier, in a suite at the Wardman Park Hotel, tall, greying Ambassador Alberto Tarchiani had made his bow to the U.S. Just 55 hours out of Rome, via a U.S. Army transport, he had called in the U.S. press even before inspecting his embassy. "I am an old journalist myself," he said to the 21 newsmen. "I appreciate your work very much...
Dirt Cheap. In San Francisco, Harry Vensano, Public Works director, demanded that the city hold up a $12,375 Payment for soil delivered to a city park. His objection: the enterprising contractor had dug the dirt out of city streets...
...setting for the conference, Chapultepec Castle, in whose park the Aztec emperors used to stroll, was symbolic. U.S. troops stormed the castle in 1847, and to Mexicans. Chapultepec means much the same thing that Bunker Hill means to the U.S. Among its defenders were teen-age cadets of the Mexican Military College, who are revered to this day in Mexico as the "Niños Héroes" (Boy Heroes) of Chapultepec...
Raged Dr. Selig A. Shevin, resigning from the Jackson Park staff: "UnAmerican, unpatriotic, inhuman...