Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gone through grammar school; only 11% had finished high school. In age, 59.47% were 17 or 18. Nine per cent were Negroes segregated in their own camps (as are veterans; Indians usually work in reservation groups, live at home). Application for CCC jobs are cleared by local relief agencies through the U. S. Labor and War Departments. CCC juniors report, on acceptance, at an Army recruiting station, usually go directly to CCCamps, where they find a Reserve lieutenant or captain in command. There they begin group life in uniform. But they find no guardhouse, no drill, no saluting, no punishments...
After dinner at 5:30 comes CCC's fun and education. Until taps at 10 p.m., four in ten CCCers take vocational instruction in everything from Diesel engine operation to drawing; three in ten study mathematics and other academic subjects. They also have organized sports, camp papers and CCC's weekly Happy Days, published in Washington, as well as other recreations common to young men who distinctly are neither uniformed angels nor devils...
...Mooney, the class prisoner, was a symbol of labor's intolerable servitude. But Tom Mooney, pardoned and free, is a symbol no longer. He is an ex-class prisoner, who, to win his own freedom, led the workers into the enemy's camp [by advocating the election of Culbert Olson, who pardoned him], repudiated the class struggle and helped to elect to office a man who stands squarely upon the precepts of capitalism-a champion of private ownership. Before and since you [Tom Mooney] gained your freedom, you have expressed your intention to labor for a better social...
When he got back to the East he went to Vermont, got a job acting in a summer camp, followed it by a bit part in a road company. A meeting with Clifford Odets led to better parts in Group Theatre productions, the leading role in Having Wonderful Time, a part in Golden Boy, which got him his Hollywood contract...
Among the directors of the project, which will be known as the "Bear Camp Tramway," are Gov. Francis P. Murphy, Sen. H. Styles Bridges, and Attorney Charles M. Dale, president, a member of the Governor's Council...