Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week-end guests at his Rapidan camp the President last week had Edsel Ford and Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico who is now reported to aspire to the Governorship of the Philippines. President Hoover reached the camp just in time to settle down before a big log fire and broadcast a brief speech dedicating Cornell University's War Memorial.* His theme: the patriotism of college men who went...
...Flag. Chief Justice Hughes again showed a liberal slant last week when he read the court's decision voiding a Communist's conviction under California's "red flag" law. Yetta Stromberg, 19, ran a children's camp at which youngsters pledged loyalty to a red flag. Under the California statute it is a felony to "display any red flag or other device as a sign, symbol or emblem of opposition to organized government or as an invitation or stimulus to anarchistic action." Declared Chief Justice Hughes...
...week of easy workouts. This afternoon, with the possibility of a four-mile row in preparation for the coming strenuous days at Red Top, the first heavyweight crew will call a halt in its spring practice until next Sunday, when the squad is to leave for the southern training camp...
...Mark Twain seen the 20,000 people who milled about last week in the little town of Angels Camp, Calaveras County, Calif, he would have been astounded. Yet they were there because he once wrote a story called "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,'' which told how Jim Smiley's frog Dan'l Webster was defeated at Angels Camp when the opposition loaded it with buckshot. In 1926 Angels Campers, grateful for their town's only fame, instituted an annual International Championship Standing Broad Jump for Frogs to honor Mark Twain and to have...
...betting favorite. But while the crowd shrieked, jostled, fired revolvers, he covered only 4 ft. 8 in. in his three jumps. A pampered creature called Zenobia, imported from Kinston, N. C. in a tub of native water, raised cheers by doing 8 ft. 6 in. Then Angels Camp went wild as the bright green veteran Budweiser thrust thrice with his long green legs, shot down the course 11 ft. 5 in., was declared winner...