Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cool quiet of his camp on the Rapidan President Hoover took the directorate of Reconstruction Finance Corp. for a week-end talk about Relief. House Democrats had spurned the Hoover program, were in fact on the verge of passing their own bill for a big public works bond issue. The President and his R. F. C. conferees sat all day. Dusk melted into night but the discussion ran on. A little breeze riffled papers and reports on the conference table...
Early Sunday morning Theodore Joslin, Hoover secretary, got a telephone call in Washington ordering him immediately to the camp. A White House car sped him to the Rapidan where the President handed him another statement for the Press. He raced back to the Capital, started up the well-oiled White House mimeographs, summoned newsmen...
...lately he was observed at this site, a quiet spot in the woods. His yellow Rolls-Royce (with burnished metal bonnet) was parked nearby. He was clad in a coonskin coat with Daniel Boone cap to match, sitting on the ground trapper-style, thoughtfully making a little camp fire...
...amplify his objections he called a camp stenographer and dictated a 2,500-word letter to Herbert Samuel Crocker, president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, ardent advocate of a big public works program.* A courier sped the letter to Washington where Secretary of the Treasury Mills checked it over for fiscal facts and figures. Then it was mimeographed and passed out to newsmen at the White House...
Harvard will establish a separate camp and will conduct its experiments apart from direct association with any other university, although it is expected that nearly a dozen colleges will set up similar camps in the path of total darkness. The headquarters of Lick Observatory, of Mount Hamilton, California, will be located in Conway, New Hampshire. The period of totality of the eclipse, will be from 98 to 100 seconds, although partial darkness will obscure the entire afternoon...