Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like a summer thunderstorm was the question: what would Franklin Roosevelt do now about his purge of the Democratic Party? Especially, what would he do about Senator Walter F. George of Georgia, on whom Roosevelt lieutenants had sicked as an opponent in next month's primary Lawrence Sabyllia Camp, Georgia's onetime Attorney General, now a Roosevelt-appointed U. S. District Attorney...
...White House Police team, whose towering Officer Roland G. Ford had second-highest individual score for all events, 1,186 out of a possible 1,200. The Treasury's six best shots will practice in Washington until next fortnight, when they go to the national championships at Camp Perry, Ohio...
...runs an old camp-meeting story. And so, last week, stood matters for 22,000 Home Relief clients in New York City. WPA used to make and distribute false teeth. It stopped when it could not find enough technicians on its rolls to keep pace with the demand. Last week, after many an indigent had waited toothless for two years, the problem was solved by the city's Department of Public Welfare contracting with nine dental laboratories to manufacture some 35,000 plates, following X-rays, extractions and impressions made by WPA dental clinics...
...refugees who have fled Germany, now finds she has "arrived practically at the point of saturation, which permits her no longer to receive further refugees without upsetting the equilibrium of her social structure." M. Bérenger cried: "The hunting of a man, confiscation of his property, a concentration camp beyond which there is only the graveyard as a horizon-all this is contrary to human dignity and can result only in the catastrophic disturbance of relations between nations!" Such language was not calculated to soothe Adolf Hitler, whose help would be most useful in getting Jews out of Germany...
...Beer-drinking, 230-lb. Tony Galento, No. 1 contender for the world's heavyweight boxing title: an unscheduled fight against pneumonia, contracted while a teetotaler at training camp five days before a scheduled fight with Light Heavyweight Champion John Henry Lewis; after three blood transfusions and five days under an oxygen tent; at Orange, N. J. When told that his blood transfusions were injections of salt, impatient Tony, tired of being flat on his back with "this ammonia," growled: "Why can't Mary [his wife] put the salt in the soup instead of punching me full of holes...