Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody was surprised when one Arthur Maillefort, automobile thief, strangled to death last June chained in a "sweat box" (board casket) in a Florida prison camp. Notorious is Florida's rough penal system, exposed in 1929 by the crusading old New York World...
...When he failed to appear, Olympic Coach Robert J. H. Kiphuth announced angrily: "Kojac is in hiding somewhere. He will be given no special consideration. . . . He is out." Presently George Kojac allowed his whereabouts to be known. He was working as counselor in a New York boys' camp, lacked funds to compete in this year's Olympics. The race he might have won, the 100-metre back stroke, went to 16-year-old Danny Zehr of Fort Wayne...
...Company Sergeant Major C. F. H. Bayly, 58, English marksman of the 4th Volunteer Battalion of the West Kent Regiment: the famed King's Prize ($1,250), a gold medal and a gold badge in the National Rifle Association's meeting at Bisley Camp, England; with 289 out of a possible 300, second highest score on record. Desmond Burke of Canada, King's Prizewinner in 1924, won the Challenge Trophy, $50, and the Rifle Association's Grand Cross for an aggregate...
...began closing in on the noisy little Red. Suddenly out of nowhere appeared General Glassford. "Pace has just as much right to speak here as anyone," he shouted. "Any of you who disagree with him and don't want to listen, go to some other part of the camp and play baseball...
Died. King Camp Gillette, 77, safety razor man; of bladder trouble; in Los Angeles. Retired from active business in 1913, he returned in 1929 when intense competition set in, invented a new razor which his company immediately began producing. Probak Corp., a subsidiary of Henry Jaques Gaisman's AutoStrop Safety Razor Co., produced a blade which exactly fitted the new Gillette. A merger followed, Gillette buying out AutoStrop (TIME, Oct. 27, 1930), ostensibly leaving King Camp Gillette still "razor king.' The real victory went to shrewd Henry Jaques Gaisman...