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Camp Wood, for white girls, has a big recreation & dining room, electrically-lighted cabins, tennis courts, ping-pong tables, riding horses, a lake for swimming and boating. At Camp Washita girls live in a dormitory, have a piano, phonograph, radio and cement swimming pool. Camp Bide-a-Wee "is a cool, green spot shaded by huge trees situated beside a clear creek" where "colored women live in screened-in cabins, possess a beautifully furnished main room for recreation and study and have tennis courts, swings and a croquet ground for sports...
...hopes these rules will give it what it thought it was gaining when Section ya became law. The company unions will supposedly suffer. The A. F. of L., being already organized, will have a distinct advantage over all other unions. It can bide its time until it gains a majority of the workers in any plant, then secure an election," and with its majority gain the sole right of bargaining in that plant, a hold which it is not likely to lose once gained, for no employe could have any object in joining a minority union...
...30th birthday falls on June 19 and although the huge Democratic majority could, if it would, seat him, it knows only too well the national howl the Republicans would set up about the New Deal caring nought for the Constitution. Hence Majority Leader Robinson ordered Youngster Holt to bide his time. In June, if Congress is still in session, the majority will vote Holt his seat. Meantime he will cast no votes, but he, too, has a seat with his name on it, an office and clerks, and the expectation of $833 a month...
...Roman Catholic Church, judging itself immutable, bides its time. For six years its episcopate in Mexico has been in bitter, almost continuous strife with Mexico's Government. Grieved with what he considers persecution and what Mexican legislators call regulation, Pope Pius XI has watched in patience, hoping for peace chiefly through the truce arranged between Church and State by the late Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow. Last week Pius XI ceased to bide, uttered a sharp protest in the stately, tremulous latinity of a Papal encyclical headed Acerba animi ("bitterness of soul...
...Elected in 1912 to the House of Representatives he was beaten in 1916 because he dared to predict that President Wilson, instead of "keeping us out of War" would put us in. In 1918 he made a second futile attempt at the Governorship, then retired to Tishomingo to bide his time...