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Word: camp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President greeted cordially Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, the first , overnight guest at White Pine Camp. (Senator Fess was the second). Mr. Davis and his host strolled about the grounds, then ambled down to Lake Osgood to inspect rods and lines and to practice casting. They discussed the possibility of moving the Curtis Bay (near Baltimore) and Raritan, N. J., arsenals to some relatively detached point (see Army and Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: At White Pine Camp- Aug. 2, 1926 | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

...President arose later, breakfasted amply, telephoned to Loon Lake (30 miles from White Pine Camp), invited Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio to come over and spend the night. Senator Fess (whose farm relief bill was recently overwhelmingly defeated in Congress) predicted that Senator Willis, Republican Ohio Senatorial nominee, would defeat Atlee Pomerene, Democratic aspirant to the Senate. Next morning Mrs. Coolidge drove with Senator Fess back to Loon Lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: At White Pine Camp- Aug. 2, 1926 | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

...Administration catnip crop near Arlington, had failed. Since catnip oil is essential to the successful trapping activities of Biological Survey felinophobes, the Federal crop would be nursed more carefully this year at Saratoga, N. Y., about 100 miles from White Pine Camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: At White Pine Camp- Aug. 2, 1926 | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

...President received the man who would like to be President; an executive who had pitched hay on a Vermont farm met an executive who had sold fish at the Fulton market. Historians, political observers, reporters, photographers yearned for ringside seats; but the gates of White Pine Camp clicked shut after the Governor and Mrs. Smith had entered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Presidential Week | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

...Mallet has visited these hardy trappers many times. Evidently he has found time for good reading on his trips, or maybe it is through his Gallic inheritance that he comes by the lucid, restrained prose in which, a page or two at a time, he relates brief episodes of camp and trail. They are quiet, unpretentious little sketches, dramatized no whit, yet filled with the mystery and magnitude of nature, wild and human, that the writer has experienced "north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: North of 53 | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

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