Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt did not keep reporters waiting long. His swiftness caught them off guard. To a luncheon at the Warm Springs Foundation for paralysis patients, mostly children, came Lawrence Sabyllia Camp. To the surprise of even his intimates, Franklin Roosevelt arose and introduced Mr. Camp as a "gentleman who I hope will be the next Senator from this State...
...full thunder-blast for that afternoon at Barnesville, Ga., where he was to throw the switch on a new REA project. Barnesville's population of 3,000 swelled to 30,000 to hear him. On the speakers' platform at his side were Senator George and Candidate Camp. When Franklin Roosevelt began to speak, all present recognized a significant emphasis and deliberateness in his delivery. Before he finished, people realized they had heard a resounding declaration...
...Rochester, N. Y. supervisor named Dr. Joseph Edgar Maddy, played before a national conference of music supervisors, amazed its much-assaulted audience by sounding not bad at all. Encouraged by the success of this National High School Orchestra, Dr. Maddy two years later founded a National Music Camp on property he bought, in collaboration with a Minneapolis supervisor named Thaddeus Philander Woodbury Giddings, at Interlochen in northern Michigan...
Last week the camp neared the end of its eleventh season. A $300,000 concern, helped through depression years by friends like the Juilliard and Eastman Foundations, Carnegie Corp. and the late Sam Insull, the Music Camp offers eight weeks of fun and din to any young (10-to-18) U. S. musician with $200. About 200 youngsters attended this summer...
Boys and girls of the Music Camp live in cabins on separate lakes, named by the founders Wah-be-ka-ness ("Water Lingers'') and Wah-be-ka-net-ta ("Water Lingers Again") but unanimously called Green Lake and Duck Lake. All wear uniforms of blue corduroy pants or knickers, blue shirts and socks. Uniformed likewise are the faculty (31 this summer), members of competent U. S. orchestras and music schools. Since 1931, NBC has broadcast concerts from the Music Camp's open-air Interlochen Bowl. New this year was a Radio Workshop, whose members wrote scripts...