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Word: camped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President motored to his Rapidan camp for a long weekend. From newspapers dropped by plane he carefully read the Roosevelt speech of acceptance at the Convention. Then he took pencil & paper and began blocking out his own acceptance speech to be delivered later this summer from the South Portico of the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Jul. 11, 1932 | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

...most brilliant successes in the Nicaraguan campaign," President Hoover awarded the Navy Cross to Lieut. Samuel S. Jack, U. S. Marine Corps, of Glendale, Ariz. In April 1931, Aviator Jack had bombed a rebel camp at Puerto Cabezas, later directed a relief patrol to the siege of Logtown, all under heavy fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Jul. 11, 1932 | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

...spirit of Il Duce's 1922 march on Rome, proclaimed himself the veterans' dictator. He conducted an election "so there wouldn't be any kicks," discharged disgruntled officers. His bronzed face and yellow hair glistened proudly as he strode out to the Anacostia camp next day in whipcord breeches and shiny riding boots. He summoned his men and began barking the new order of the day. There were to be daily drill periods henceforth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: To Hell With Civil Law! | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

...drill, wondering if the new regime would stiffen or crack the B. E. F.'s morale, wondering why the men hung on anyhow, hoping for an impossible cash Bonus settlement from a Congress which had already denied it. Characteristic of the whole perverse, stolid affair was the new camp watchword: "Stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: To Hell With Civil Law! | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

...This morning the Akron and her personnel said 'so long' to camp life and our efficient Marine Corps ground crew and soared into a spotted sky of blue and white, breaking fog for the return flight to Lakehurst. . . . Very soon the first of the Akron's planes was hooked on and stowed in its lair within the ship. . . . Just south of Gilroy, Calif, dense fog rolled inland from Monterey Bay up to about 2,000 ft. The coast line was not sighted but after determining by dead reckoning and bearings on mountain peaks that we had crossed the coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lighter-than-Air | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

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