Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he returned to the White House from his Rapidan camp early last week, President Hoover found his desk stacked with messages from all the world applauding his debt holiday plan. He glanced at a few-"stroke of genius," "fine constructive step," "thousands will thank God for you." Then, sweeping the rest aside, he plunged into six days of hard exciting work-the kind which makes a man glad to be President. For the first time he felt the exquisite sensation of a united nation behind him on a major issue. He became, almost overnight, a changed man, a nerveless...
With the blessing of Wall Street and all other markets upon him, President Hoover motored to his Rapidan camp to relax. Mrs. Hoover had preceded him there. Their guests included George Woodward Wickersham, Bruce Barton, Newbold Noyes (Washington editor), Edgar Rickard (old business friend). Behind him the President left a world still echoing with his praise. Happiest of cities was Berlin. Its 6 ft. 6 in. Ober-burgermeister, Heinrich ("Uncle Sam") Sahm, went before the International Convention of Building Trades fervently to declare: "I propose President Hoover for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is a candidate without competition. His action...
When President Hoover bought 168 acres of land atop the Blue Ridge for $5 per acre, leased 2,000 acres more along the Rapidan and moved out to his camp for weekends, members of his Cabinet trailed along after him. They liked his selection of a resort. Last year, therefore, Attorney General Mitchell, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur and Secretary of Agriculture Hyde clubbed together to build a camp of their own about a mile below the President's. They were under the impression that all that country was soon to become a national preserve, so they did not bother...
...condemnation proceeding at Madison, Va. the lumber company officials swore that the Cabinet camp, with its four luxurious cabins costing $20,000, had been built without their permission, that no lease had been sought or signed. The Rapidan Marine force of 120 men under Major Earl Long had also squatted on their property for a year before bothering about a lease.* When timbermen tried to go on their own lands, they were seized by the officious Marine guards of the camp and escorted off by the seat of the pants. The lumber company had to pay taxes increased by improvements...
When President Hoover picked the Rapidan for his camp, he had no idea that his presence there would hurt, rather than help Virginia gather up private land to contribute as the Shenandoah National Park. The President's camp boomed mountainside values. The Madison Timber Corp., putting a $1,000,000 price on land sought by the State, argued that their property was worth it, not entirely as timber perhaps, but as a potential summer resort. The President, they claimed, had given the region priceless advertising and had put in an 8 mi. road worth $200,000. and power and telephone...