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Parks and Playgrounds for the People.— We ask the question, how far, and in what way, shall we promote

... and support the wholesome recreation of the people Now, clearly the ruling power should have nothing to do with such a care—let them provide parks and play -grounds, and their work is done. But what benefits would be effected by private interference. I throw it out only for conversation. Yet the matter is not of trifling importance. We might improve and direct the taste of the people, and ...

NEW OLYMPIC RECORDS

... PAAVO NURMI'S TIME FOR 10,000 METRES BEATEN. LOED BUEGHLEY IN HUEDLES FINAL. CANADIAN WINS THE HIGH JUMP. Great Britain fared well as could be loped for on the opening day the tra ...

Published: Monday 01 August 1932
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1352 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: olympics 

GERMANY GOES OLYMPIC

... SOMETHING national fervour is again sweeping Germany. This time it has nothing to do with Nazis and Brown Shirt politics. It has to do with sport, and it is Olympian its force, ju ...

BERLIN OLYMPIC GAMES

... BOYCOTT URGED BY U.S. CHURCHES. Hot on the heels of the latest demands by- Jewish organisations that the United States should withdraw its support from the 1936 Olympic Games in ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1935
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 296 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: olympics 

THE OLYMPIC GAMES

... BRITAIN'S POOR SHOW IN FIELD EVENTS. POTENTIAL CHAMPIONS SPOILT BY ADULATION. In the course of letter Tihe Times, Sir Harold Bowden writes : If we pass review the achievements our ...

Published: Monday 13 July 1931
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1026 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: olympics