Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newshawk cynically remarked to him that more U. S. newsreaders were interested in Granddaughter Peggy Ann than in his debt holiday, the President denied that the U. S. people were of such low intelligence. The Press fortnight ago described the President's hurried departure from his Rapidan camp (where no reporters were present) and his 60 m. p. h. drive back to Washington. Mr. Hoover was intensely annoyed...
...cool of his Rapidan camp last Sunday President Hoover lolled restfully. It was the first relaxation he had had in a week of intense negotiation with France over his proposed debt holiday (see p. 16). His eye roved across the placid Virginia countryside. Inside the "Town Hall" a telephone bell rang. It was Acting Secretary of State William Richards Castle Jr. in Washington. The President, excited, almost leaped to the instrument. What was it? Another note from France. Was it satisfactory? No, it made serious proposals counter to the President's plan. Very well, the President would return immediately...
...once," he ordered as he turned from the telephone. But no car came. Camp cooks continued to prepare Sunday dinner. The President's temper began to rise. He repeated his command, louder this time: "Get my car AT ONCE!" A few minutes later the White House motor rolled up before him. Behind it came the presidential bodyguard, buttoning their shirts and tying their cravats as they scrambled into their escort car. A brief nod of farewell to his camp guests and President Hoover, without dinner, started down the mountain toward the capital 112 mi. away. Thirty miles along...
...strenuous means of ballyhoo were required for the meeting of World's Champion Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, German printer, and William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling of Georgia. Stribling, an able if eccentric aviator, borrowed a plane from Cleveland airport and flew it 90 miles from his training camp at Geauga Lake Park, Ohio to Schmeling's training camp at Conneaut Lake Park, Pa. Here he flew low, shouted: "Yeah, Maxie!" and flew away again. Other exciting training camp incidents were few. Reporters assigned to the Stribling camp were compelled to interview the numerous members of the fighter...
...June 11 a strike sympathizer was shot at Gallatin by a deputy who said the man threatened him. On June 13 a train carrying 60 strikebreakers from Cleveland to the Kinloch mine (Valley Camp Coal Co.) was stopped near Parnassus by ties placed across the tracks by strikers. The 200 strikers broke all the windows in the train, battled up and down the right of way with State police...