Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rothermere for the Press & Journal, paying the absurd figure of ?750,000 to keep the enemy out of camp. In Hull, Gloucester, Bristol, Staffordshire, many another town, Rothermere.got a foothold. Wherever both camps had papers, there was a furious fight for circulation. In Newcastle, Rothermere planted his Evening World in opposition to Camrose's old established Chronicle. In 100 days he ran the World's circulation to 176,000, two-and-a-half times the Chronicle's. Baron Camrose wailed in protest against the Rothermere circulation method, which was to give free and hearty dinners plus free...
This historic interchange between a Republican President and his Democratic successor not only revealed the mental abyss separating the two men but also stirred Washington and Albany to hot political resentment. The Hoover camp felt that Governor Roosevelt was afraid to join forces with the President because he did not want to exhibit publicly his own lack of a debt plan. "I-told-you-so" Republicans chortled about their pre-election predictions that President Hoover's defeat would produce just such a hiatus in economic recovery...
...sprinkled silver on top of it without bothering to look beneath the surface. Equipped with fabulous wealth, Tabor gave Denver a munificent opera house with his name engraved on a two-foot block of silver. He got himself elected lieutenant governor, divorced his wife, Augusta, to marry a mining camp belle named Baby Doe. President Arthur attended the wedding, in Washington, just after Haw Tabor had wangled himself a seat in the U. S. Senate. Tabor spent $1,000 on a silk and lace nightshirt with gold buttons; he was swindled out of a fortune trying...
Young countries need heroes. Last July a Brazilian general busy crushing a revolution was given pause when one of the rebels, Alberto Santos-Dumont, 59, Brazil's foremost air pioneer, died of arteriosclerosis in the enemy camp, Sao Paulo. The General hurriedly sent word to his federal troops to cease firing for a day, his planes to cease bombing. That day federal planes dropped on the great airman's home proclamations hailing his work, deploring his political affiliations...
...starts about the middle of November when sportswriters, coaches and colyumists begin to air their views. It goes on until Sportswriter Grantland Rice, who is generally considered to be the Ail-American selector of All-America teams because he inherited the job with Collier's from the late Walter Camp, announces his selections. The Grantland Rice All-America team for 1932, compiled with the aid of seven sportswriters who saw the teams which Grantland Rice missed...