Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cuba. Provisional President Carlos Mendieta finished his speech at a naval officers' luncheon at Tiscornia Camp across the bay from Havana and sat down. BAM! A huge hole opened in the wall under a stairway, blew a great wind across the room. A seaman and a Navy paymaster stood directly between Mendieta and the stairway. The blast killed both, scratched Mendieta's left hand and wounded a scattering of Cuban officialdom. Said President Mendieta: "It was a terrible surprise but just one of those things." Another of "those things" Spoke two days later from submachine guns...
...later the Secretary of War and party rolled up in front of the Administration Building in a taxi. An out-of-breath reception committee greeted them, perspired with embarrassment, apologized that there had been no time to summon soldiers for a 19-gun salute. Over to the Army tent-camp strolled the Secretary of War, stood at attention while a squad fired A Century of Progress's first tardy salute. Followed by three private bodyguards, Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean went to a night club in A Century of Progress. Around her neck hung the 44½ carat Hope diamond...
...Just received telegram from friend on Yale Varsity who says that David Livingston, rowing No. 4 on Junior Varsity, cannot go to New London to race against Harvard because of R. O. T. C. engineering camp. Apparently no Senators have been able to excuse him and they wish father to intervene as soon as possible if anything can be done. See you at the races, I hope. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., member of Harvard's Freshman crew, sent that telegram last week to White House Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. When the President saw the message he sent Sub-Secretary Early...
...mild little editorial headed "Mr. Minister, A Word Please" which suggested that perhaps Minister of Propaganda Goebbels might have lost touch with the public, shut in as he was by thousands of antechambers. The presses had hardly stopped printing the editorial before Editor Welk found himself in a concentration camp and his paper suppressed for three months. Only the mocking laughter of the world Press forced Minister Goebbels to release...
...Nile from Victoria Nyanza. Miss Booth acted in a skimpy garment made of monkey fur. Elephant grass cut her bare feet and legs, the sun blistered her bare thighs, arms and back; African insects gouged her everywhere. The heroine rejoiced when a cloudburst destroyed the camp, two hippopotamuses trampled the debris, and Director Van Dyke ordered the company to move to the Belgian Congo...