Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt camp received another set-back last week when the 25 potent Scripps-Howard papers throughout the land frontpaged an editorial entitled "Give Us Alfred E. Smith." Excerpts: "Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt possess in common one dominating trait. Faced in a pinch with political consequences, they yield. Between the two it is a toss up. . . The nomination of Roosevelt is possible but not certain. Between Roosevelt and the White House there now stands a man endowed in the very highest degree with those qualities which both Hoover and Roosevelt lack and which the country so sorely needs...
...personnel, destitute veterans who had "bummed" their way to the Capital from all over the country, whooped and pranced about among their crude shelters. Most of them had left hungry wives and children behind. They had gone to Washington because, long jobless, they had nothing better to do. In camp with their A. E. F. fellows again, they seemed to have revived the old ganging spirit of Army days as an escape from reality. They convinced themselves that they were there to right some vague wrong-a wrong somehow bound up in the fact that the Government had opened...
...from Portland across the continent last month. Now in command of 15,000 men, he became the sober, strict executive with headquarters and a staff in a deserted building on Pennsylvania Avenue. He directed the B. E. F.'s lobbyists, organized newcomers, arranged for food and shelter, maintained camp order and, above all, kept the Bonus uppermost in his followers' minds. Said he: "We're here for the duration and we're not going to starve. We're going to keep ourselves a simon-pure veterans' organization. If the Bonus is paid it will...
Best Washington friend of the B. E. F. last week was Pelham Glassford, Superintendent of Police, onetime Army brigadier. He supplied the camp with food during its first hard days, later managed the money and supplies donated for its subsistence. He bought or borrowed tents, arranged for quarters in condemned Government buildings. He supplied trucks to take all who wanted to leave 50 miles from the Capitol. When no appreciable number accepted his free transportation offer, he dug in to make the B. E. F. as comfortable as possible. His kindness brought rumors that President Hoover, displeased, might summarily dismiss...
There are still a few vacancies in the enrollment for Engineering Sciences 4, one of the Summer School courses given annually at the Harvard Engineering camp at Squam Lake, New Hampshire. This course is conducted differently from the customary classroom and laboratory methods used in Cambridge. The students are grouped in sections of 12 men who go into the fields and woods, under the leadership of an instructor, to make measurements with the various surveying instruments. A full course credit is given toward the degrees of A.B. and S.B. upon satisfactory completion of the course...