Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...store fronts. At Republican National Committee headquarters in the Bellevue-Stratford hotel, party-workers checked over lists of page-boys, sergeants-at-arms, ushers and doorkeepers for the great National Convention. Candidates' headquarters came to life. Crowded hotel lobbies buzzed with the chitchat and greetings of guests, politicians, camp followers and swarming newsmen...
...long been a synonym for high-tariff Republicanism and who has fed and guided the forces of Pennsylvania's conservatism for nearly half a century. Uncle Joe is quite deaf, scorns such contraptions as hearing aids, and conserves his energy. While he planned the strategy for his camp this week, the tactics were in the hands of his handyman, National Committeeman G. Mason Owlett, who doubles in brass as president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. Grundy, Owlett & Co. were working for the nomination of Tom Dewey...
...merely divided the Western camp, antagonized the Germans, and given ample aid & comfort to the Reds. In France the agreement produced a political and spiritual crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS). German antiCommunists, the very people the move was designed to help, regarded it as an insult and an injury. German leaders meeting in Düsseldorf to discuss an increase in Ruhr coal production proclaimed self-righteously: "International control of the Ruhr is not justified, because the German authorities are themselves unanimously determined never to allow the Ruhr to become a threat to peace . . ." Cried a cocky German labor leader...
...Duke of Edinburgh, who turned 27 last week, not only got the Freedom of the City of London, but was admitted to membership in the City's Worshipful Company of Fishmongers. He was also appointed a personal aide-de-camp to his well-known father...
...good part of Lyons' story is convincing. The Quaker boy putting himself through college by delivering laundry, working in a Sierra mine camp, becoming a brilliant, wealthy engineer-all this is good, moving Horatio Alger stuff. And Lyons is doubtless on the side of historical justice when he insists that President Hoover was 1) not responsible for the depression, and 2) anticipated many of the economic remedies for which his successor was later hailed...