Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indian Summer weather (temp. 83°) sent President Hoover and 19 weekend guests to his Shenandoah National Park camp, hastily reopened. Chilly rain drove them back to the White House for Sunday night supper and music...
...growing defeatist attitude of the regular Republican cohorts in the Senate. There had been talk of outright surrender to the coalition of Democrats and Progressive Republicans, of adjourning the Senate Nov. 15 and leaving the Tariff Bill supine upon a deserted field. Such futility had pervaded the Republican camp that Brigadier Hiram Johnson of California remarked to his comrades-in-arms...
There were not enough chairs so some of the Cabinet sat on camp stools. They had met in the plain, business-like office of Australia's new Labor Prime Minister, quiet; vigorous James Henry Scullin (TIME, Nov. 5). After a long, tense session last week they jolted all Australia by announcing suspension of compulsory military training...
...little less than that of New York City. To defend this enormous area, the Australian conscription law provided that boys must register at the age of 14, that those physically able must serve as citizen soldiers between the age of 17 and 21, must drill two hours weekly, attend camp one week each summer for field instruction. There is no regular army. A skeleton force of 1,582 instructors is retained as a "permanent" army. To defend the continent last year there were just 45,273 citizen soldiers potentially under arms.* Said Prime Minister Scullin...
Sued for Divorce. King Gaines Gillette, son of King Camp Gillette (safety razors); by Mrs. Elizabeth Caldwell Gillette; at Reno. Grounds: incompatibility. Last week they motored to the Stanford-Southern California game after which Mrs. Gillette went to Reno for a "most friendly divorce," her husband returning to Hollywood...