Word: camps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plans are already under way for the 1938 Sunshine Camp, a health school, which provides two months of happy, health-building camp life for sixty needy Cambridge children, an important piece of work, which is supported largely by the sale of Christmas seals. Sincerely yours, (Mrs.) Mabel Greeley Smith, Executive Secretary...
According to Dr. Claude Conrad, a missionary official of Washington, D. C.: "A majority of the ship's crew came into camp more or less incapacitated and abusive from the effects of free indulgence in the ship's liquor stores. Out of control of officers partially in the same condition, many of the crew men continued most of the night terrorizing passengers and natives." However, when the liquored seamen began hunting for women passengers sleeping in scattered houses ashore, some officers and other passengers formed a vigilante group to protect them. There was no actual molestation. There would...
Under the bill a central organization is to be established in the Home Office to plan for evacuation of "target cities," such as London. With the co-operation of local authorities in the vulnerable cities, camp grounds will be laid out in the open country; food, water and sanitation arranged; facilities for transporting the civilian population set up. During the first & second readings tax-burdened local governments protested hotly that it was "unfair" to saddle them with the maintenance of civilians evacuated from other areas. To quiet these complaints Home Secretary Sir Samuel boosted the proportionate share to be paid...
...election campaign. A month later he became Lord Sackville, finished out a long, lazy life "reading right through Gibbon every other year and whittling paper-knives from the lids of cigar-boxes." As mistress of Knole Castle and pet of Edward VII, Victoria took London into camp as she had Washington, married the heir to Knole, first cousin Lionel Sackville-West, shy, quiet. the perfect English country gentleman, five years her junior...
...Thirty-first Annual Sale of Christmas Seals in Cambridge begins the day after Thanksgiving, for the support of Sunshine Camp, a summer health school for sixty boys and girls. The money is also used to wage an educational campaign against tuberculosis, heart disease, cancer and syphilis...