Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observation of the new Vienna is that National Socialism has a firm grip on the life of the place and has come to stay. Terror reigns throughout the population and nobody dares give a plain answer to a plain question. . . . All the jails are full and the concentration camp at Dachau (near Munich) has grown to unwieldy proportions. . . . The total number placed in jails since March 12 (when Austria was annexed by the Reich) can hardly be less than 50,000 and is probably more...
Union? Because they minister to the laboring classes, Labor wants social workers in its camp. C. L. O. is out to organize 50,000 of them. President Jacob Baker of C. L. O.'s United Federal Workers of America (Government employes' union) sent emissaries to Seattle with a message saying: "Unorganized, these [Government] workers present a danger to the labor movement. . . . They will be sympathetic to Labor or they will be hostile and there is no middle ground." Mr. Baker's organizers found the social workers at Seattle about equally divided between: 1) Elders who regarded themselves...
...route from the plains of Texas to a battlefield in France, Private Bill Pettigrew (James Stewart) is stationed at Camp Merritt, near New York City. One evening he collides with a limousine containing glamorous Daisy Heath (Margaret Sullavan). Unaware of the nature of her attachment to her manager (Walter Pidgeon), Private Pettigrew falls in love. Aware of the effect of a rude disillusionment, Daisy makes a brave gesture that enables Private Pettigrew to sail for France with his sublimated devotion unimpaired...
Interned as a dangerous non-Aryan in a Nazi concentration camp was mild little Felix Salten, 68-year-old Viennese author (Bambi, The Hound of Florence) of mild little books about animals, who once said: "If you would keep men from becoming as animals, strive ever to see animals...
...wallflower female guests. Teddy (Ginger Rogers) comes there to spend the two weeks which are her annual reward for 50 weeks of drudgery as a Manhattan stenographer. They quarrel, make up, and fall in love. The incidents of their romance are pathetically meagre-dances to the music of the camp band, a brief mutual inspection of the moon, a single excursion by canoe to Eagle Rock. Behind these incidents, imprinted with the devastating clarity of a picture-post card, is an animated bird's-eye view of thousands of U. S. summer days at thousands of U. S. Kamp...