Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daybreak, rain drummed on the windowpanes of Washington, D.C. But the city awakened with a stir of excitement, like a college town on the morning the football team comes home with the championship. Franklin Roosevelt, elected to Term IV, was coming back to the White House from Hyde Park. At 7:30 a.m. crowds were standing in the grey morning outside the Union Station. By 8:28, when the President's special train pulled in, there were 30,000 people on the wet plaza before the station, and a third of a million more along the two miles...
...Albany, the wind was raw and sharp as the Governor of New York and his wife -both in solemn mood-boarded the train for Manhattan to vote, and then to wait a nation's decision. In Manhattan, 78 people were in line ahead of the Deweys in the Park Avenue precinct. The others stood aside, despite Dewey's protest that "We haven't anything else to do today. We can wait...
...exactly two grudging sentences to the support of his party, without reference to Term IV. Walsh made the most of the insult. For four days he played "off again, on again" with Bob Hannegan, debating whether he would consent to appear with Franklin Roosevelt in Boston's Fenway Park, at the President's request. (He finally decided not to, but rode 44 miles on the President's train...
...most heavily policed community in the Hemisphere. The Revolutionary Junta (Captain Jacobo Arbenz, Jorge Toriello, Major Francisco Xavier Arana) surveyed the smoking ruins of San José Fortress, whose guns had so often fired on the people of Guatemala, decided to make the place a children's park. Fifteen more generals fled to Mexico...
...there is such a thing as a great letter-to-the-editor writer, New York City Park Commissioner Robert Moses is it. His work may not rank with Voltaire's, Ben Franklin's or George Bernard Shaw's, but it commands attention. For or against, he is always long and strong...