Word: parkway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairman Frederick A. Delano of the National Capital Park & Planning Commission, President Roosevelt's uncle, offered for sale, through the American Civic Association, handkerchiefs 28-in. square whose design, in six colors, is a map of historic Washington & environs. Proceeds will go to the George Washington Memorial Parkway Fund. Price: $1. ¶ Talking with Italian Ambassador Augusto Rosso and Commander Nicolo Sananelli of the Italian War Veterans, President Roosevelt revealed that while on a walking tour in Italy in 1860 his father James had entered Naples during a siege, had received from the great Garibaldi himself...
Died. Henry F. Sanborn, 44, general eastern agent of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co., of bullet wounds in the heart inflicted by an unknown murderer; in Queens, N. Y. His body was found buried in a shallow grave 100 yd. off the Long Island Motor Parkway by berry pickers who saw his shoe sticking out of the ground. Police could establish no motive for the crime. They held his fiancee, a young Swedish interpreter, for questioning, and asked European police to question Bancroft Mitchell, son of onetime Attorney General William D. Mitchell. Just before sailing for France, Mitchell...
...influence of parkways on land values and social values will be studied by the Harvard University School of City Planning and the Graduate School of Business Administration, in a joint research project conducted by Mr. John Nolen, city planning consultant, and Associate Professor Frank D. Wash burn of the Business School. Various outstanding examples, such as the parkway systems of Boston, Kansas City, Missouri, and Westchester County, New York, will be studied: reasons for success or failure will be determined and the findings stated so that they may be of value to other communities throughout the country...
...permanent character and location of such thoroughfares as parkways gives them particular importance, and makes necessary such a study as the proposed research into the ideal situation for parkway systems. Once established these systems involve the expenditure of millions of dollars of public funds and greatly affect the rate, direction, and character of the growth of our cities...
Five years ago William O. Goodman, Chicago lumber magnate, gave the Art Institute a theatre in memory of his son Kenneth, amateur playwright, who died in November 1918. The Goodman Theatre, built below ground level behind the Art Institute to leave the South Parkway lake frontage unobstructed, cost $300,000 and was endowed with $150,000. When Thomas Wood Stevens, then head of Carnegie Institute's drama department, was placed in full command of the enterprise, artistic Chicagoans were delighted, predicted great things for the Goodman Theatre and creative stagecraft in Chicago. Week before last Director Stevens resigned...