Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handling parents, to the best psychological methods of picking patrol leaders, the proper accounting forms for Scout funds. The funds of the general organization are elaborately budgeted and solidly provided for by receipts of 50? a year from each Scout and by the income from the Scout magazine, Boy's Life (300,000 Scout subscribers at 75? each). A thoroughly integrated institution, the Boy Scouts have even an expert publicity department fully equal to such tasks as turning out a Jamboree Journal (16-page daily tabloid) the ten days at Washington. As for mimeographed press releases, they issue...
...Monkeys. It was well that the Boy Scouts have an elaborate organization for it undertook no mean responsibility in bringing some 25,000 Scouts to Washington. A staff of nearly 200 doctors was kept busy examining every arrival to prevent any infectious disease getting started. In the first 48 hours only five boys were sent to Naval Hospital where arrangements had been made to hospitalize any Scout requiring more than 24 hours treatment: two had appendectomies, one a broken arm, one a bad case of poison ivy, one mumps. Doctors continued to make daily inspections of all Scouts...
...Boy Scout cheerfulness was put to the test this week by a downpour that lasted all Sunday night and half the next day, turning much of the camp area into quagmire. Undismayed, 5,000 selected Scouts marched to a memorial service in the Arlington National Cemetery theatre, placed a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Governmental high spot of the jamboree came later this week with President Roosevelt's review. Instead of waiting while the 25,000 passed him, the President was to drive down Constitution Avenue, lined for two miles by cheering Boy Scouts...
...Madeline Everett, 7, started off with sandwiches for a picnic in the park as countless children in countless cities have done on countless Saturdays. As afternoon wore on and they did not return, their mothers grew uneasy. When suppertime had come and gone, Mrs. Stephens sent her little boy Garth, 7, to the park to look for them. An hour later the parents called the police. Shortly after midnight a community search was on and the disappearance of the three little girls was broadcast on the Los Angeles police network. By Sunday morning a State-wide alarm...
Early Monday afternoon four Boy Scouts, part of a volunteer army which was scouring the countryside, stumbled into a deep gully about two miles back from the road in the Baldwin Hills. There in weeds as high as a man's head, her face pushed into the dirt, a clothesline tight around her cold little neck was the lifeless body of one of the girls, ravished and murdered. In the bushes a few yards away, similiarly strangled and raped, were the bodies of the others. As the horrible news of California's crime-of-the-year spread through...