Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wave" (TIME, May 1) was marred by slight inaccuracies regarding "No. 1 Inflationist Thomas." Senator Elmer Thomas has been lampooned for three years by most of the Washington correspondents. It was not surprising that they largely underestimated his ability and quickly assumed that "the Squire took him into camp" when Thomas walked out of the Oval room of the White House with his revised Senate bill. Before the Senate silverites had cast an amazing total of 33 ayes for inflation of the coinage of silver, Senator Thomas had sent his perfected measure to President Roosevelt. It was a four-lined...
...small heroes met some of their big heroes at the circus in Manhattan. Clyde Beatty. tamer of lions and tigers, shook their hands and gave autographs. Hugo Zacchini, the human cannonball, greeted them. Gene Tunney came over to say hello. Max Schmeling invited them to his training camp at Oak Ridge, N. J. Babe Ruth, who sent each boy a telegram, will have them up to the Yankee Stadium soon, promises to try and knock a home-run in their honor...
When Andrew William Mellon looked about for a place to send his boy Paul to boarding school, he chose Choate School at Wallingford, Conn, largely because of a sturdy, athletic scholar on its faculty, Raphael Johnson Shortlidge. Son Paul also went to Mr. Shortlidge's summer camp in New Hampshire. In 1927, having served Choate for 17 years. Teacher Shortlidge was made headmaster of Storm King School (Cornwall-on Hudson, N. Y.). Last September he moved again, this time to Tome at Port Deposit, Md., few miles' up the Susquehanna River from Chesapeake Bay. Some 30 Storm King...
...appointment. At the Naval Academy he played baseball, football. Graduated in 1895, he was assigned to the Asiatic Fleet. During the Philippine insurrection he distinguished himself by going ashore in the dead of night, wading through a swamp and making a sketch from a tree of an enemy camp. After Manila he spent some time in Central America "watching revolutions. ' During the War he trained officers at Annapolis. Admiral Standley has had plenty of experience for his new job in handling for two years the Navy's new instruments, its Treaty Cruisers. He is also a gunnery expert...
...interested in attending the Northfield Student Summer Conference at Camp Becket-in-the-Berkshires, Monday, June 12, to Tuesday, June 20, are invited to a meeting in Phillips Brooks House this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The meeting will be under the direction of W. C. McKain '34, church representative on the Brooks House Cabinet...