Word: camped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wagon sat Mrs. Coolidge. Behind the wagon, pushing it vigorously, came President Coolidge. Sweat poured down the President's face; his coat was off, his vest had climbed up, announcing the fact that the President wears suspenders. The presidential party was on its way to the summer camp of Samuel R. McKelvie, onetime (1919-23) Governor of Nebraska. The last few miles of the journey were made in wagons and when the horses became wearied the President joined those who added the strength of their arms to the progress of the caravan...
...last week, spoke Chief Scout Daniel Carter Beard, 77, founder of U. S. Boy Scouts, at the Boy Scout camp near Bear Mountain, N. Y. Among his listeners were Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York, Governor John E. Martineau of Arkansas, Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut, Barron Collier, August Heckscher, Will H. Hays, Edward F. Albee, William H. ("Big Bill") Edwards, General Robert Lee Bullard, and some 800 Boy Scouts...
...when General Wood was Chief of Staff, that he first conceived the training camp idea. At that time the world was at peace, the U. S. Regular Army had dropped to some 25,000 men. The first two camps (one at Monterey, Calif., the other at Gettysburg, had a combined enrollment of 222 men, all college students. In 1914 there were 667 enrollments in four camps; in 1915 the number reached 1,066. In 1915 General Wood opened the Plattsburg Camp and extended the idea to include not only college boys but also businessmen. Plattsburg quickly became the centre...
...Congress reorganized the military training camp system as part of the National Defense Act. Enrollments for the seven years following were: YEAR ENROLLMENT...
...Auguste Wilhelmine Amalie Luise (1776-1810) is chiefly famed because of her personal appeal to Napoleon at his camp in Tilsit after the battle of Jena (1806). She begged him to have mercy upon Prussia, but was only partially successful in obtaining certain concessions which enabled the Prussian army eventually to build up its strength...