Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After breakfasting sumptuously at the home (just outside Toronto) of John Paris Bickell, "richest bachelor in Canada," the party set out in two General Airways' planes flying due north over Ontario's lake country to Porcupine gold camp. Their first goal was famed Mclntyre-Porcupine mine, Mr. Bickell's prize performer (which produced $5,425,000 of gold last year). There they met Sandy Mclntyre, onetime glass-molder, later foreman of a railroad construction gang, who discovered the mine and now lives on a pension (doled out in small amounts so that he will not disappear...
...would gamble on it. Even then few copies were sold here until the U. S. entered the War. Then regimental band-masters seized on it. In Oklahoma's Fort Sill thousands of raw recruits began to swelter to it. In Massachusetts' Devens thousands more shivered to it. Camp Gordon's men shaved to it, groomed horses to it, built roads to it. They sang it whether they wanted to or not. The Government's morale-boosters made it compulsory for soldiers to sing...
Dazzled by the Premier's vision of rich works, pleased by his hard money stand, the Chamber gave M. Daladier a smash vote of confidence 413 to 163, sent him to London stronger than at any time since his Government was formed. Since Premiers cannot camp indefinitely at Conferences, Frenchmen considered that the active leader of their Delegation will be knife-faced, keen-eyed, astute Georges Bonnet, Minister of Finance. To friends he said that the World Conference "with good luck" should achieve its objectives by early September. Continentals last week credited persistent rumors that President Roosevelt does...
...Some of the conventions: American Peony Association, Ancient Order of Biberbians in America, The Maccabees Great Camp of Illinois, Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm, International Purity Congress, International Turkey Club, American Rabbit & Cavy Breeders Association, Concentrated Order...
Sauce for the gander being sauce for the goose, last week at the White House Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced jointly with Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins that women, too, would be sent to the woods this summer at Federal expense. An experimental camp was being built at Bear Mountain Park. New York, overlooking the Hudson. Thither this week were to go 25 unmarried, ablebodied, unemployed, penniless women between the ages of 18 and 30. Federal emergency relief funds were to pay $5 board each week for each woman wood-ster. They will not draw pay but will have counselors...