Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This meeting will open July 12 and will resent views of professional and lay leaders in the camp program and other adult education movements. Last year about 200 teachers in C.C.C. camps contend here for a shorter session, and are examined at the end of the conference given as a course...
...prior, Good Neighbor Roosevelt's most obstreperous neighbor, Cuba's Army Chief and Strong Man, Colonel Fulgencio Batista, had dramatically tightened his hold on the island which he now rules. Returning from a long week end in Camagüey Province to his gleaming, refurbished Camp Columbia ten miles outside Havana, Boss Batista met his Capitol lieutenants to hear details of how the lower house of Cuba's 16th Congress was staging a legislative "standup" strike in the corridors outside their chamber. For a full week they had refused to take their seats in number sufficient...
...soon as the Colonel's lieutenants shuttled back from Camp Columbia to the Capitol, the stand-up was over. Back into the chamber filed 111 of the lower house's 162 members, just enough for a quorum but not enough to let Boss Batista forget that they were aggrieved. What they then heard from President Laredo Bru would have burned the ears of any U. S. Congress...
...Government, thundered Camp Columbia through the mouth of Laredo Bru, was tired of keeping 162 Representatives and 36 Senators at a cost of $4,000,000 a year unless they passed some laws to earn their pay. Since the Senate obeyed the Colonel's orders last December and impeached troublesome President Dr. Miguel Mariano Gómez, both houses had been feeling a new sense of power. They had refrained from legislating to argue over such matters as jobs. Now the Government, reported dutiful Señor Laredo Bru, was going to set things moving again by holding elections...
Outcasts of Poker Flat is a synthesis of three Bret Harte stories-the title piece, The Luck of Roaring Camp and The Idyl of Red Gulch. Though skimpily produced, it invokes with a fidelity unusual in a double-biller the wild land and rugged times in which its scene is laid, and the nostalgic charm of the Harte stories. Its worst fault is the failure of explicitness in the last sequence, leaving the audience completely fuddled as to the reason for Oakhurst's suicide. Equally silly are scenes in which the outcasts ride out in warm weather...