Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Veterans were ejected from Government buildings needed for an improvement program which would increase employment. 3) Rioting was started by Communists and criminals bent on revolution. 4) The Army was not summoned until the police had lost control of the situation. 5) Dynamite was found in the Anacostia camp. 6) Many in the B. E. F. were not veterans but hoodlums and bums with forged discharge papers. 7) The troops were humane, did their job without hurting anybody...
...that $8,000,000 was lost when the directors ordered the company to buy 214,000 shares of its own stock at allegedly excessive prices. Some of the stock was purchased from a pool operated by several of the directors. Since then each director except the late King Camp Gillette has returned his profits to the company. With best Boston legal talent engaged in the fray, the suit dragged on for two years. Last month the court approved a settlement by which the directors agreed to pay the company $525,000 in cash and notes. Last week Judge William...
President Hoover last week spent only one full working day at his White House desk. The first three days he was aboard the U. S. S. Sequoia, fishing in Chesapeake Bay. The last three were passed at the Rapidan camp. It was the President's first real fun in months...
...camp President Hoover put in a hard 90 minutes with newsreel photographers and "still" cameramen. For three years the Hoover retreat has not been violated by the prying eyes of the Press. But this is a campaign year; presidential candidates must be popularized. The President invited a massed attack by film men who were given the run of the camp...
...demand if Quartermaster Henriet was related to the von Gayls of East Prussia. He was. The whole case was reported to the Kaiser by the Grand Duchess of Baden, friend of the family, and the sentences of all 15 men were commuted to internment in a prison camp...