Word: catoctin
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...civil servants streamed out of Government offices shutting down for the four-day Fourth of July weekend authorized by Congress, Mr. & Mrs. Truman left the White House in a car for President Roosevelt's Shangri-La, a lodge in the Catoctin Mountains, 60 miles from Washington. With them was unobtrusive Lieut. Commander William Rigdon, up from the ranks, now assistant to the naval aide. There were no other attendants. There was no motorcade and no newsmen. At the lodge the Trumans had fried chicken for supper, took in a movie, were abed...
...President Hoover takes joy in slipping away from his newsgathering shadows. Last week he succeeded in motoring without them to Catoctin Furnace, Md., to fish peacefully in Hunting Creek with Detective-Secretary Lawrence Richey. All that the newsgatherers learned was that the President caught a pound-and-a-half trout, inspected a site for a ten-room log cabin, ate a picnic supper under the trees with Mrs. Hoover. After dusk he drove back to Washington. His shadows politely rebuked...
...spots were found: 1) an 18-mile stretch of the Rapidan River in Shenandoah National Park, 100 miles west by south of Washington, upon which a presidential fishing lease was arranged; 2) a tract of 1,500 acres known as Catoctin Manor, 50 miles north of Washington, watered by Hunting Creek. This tract (but not the Manor House) was purchased in the name of Lawrence Richey. A rustic cabin will be built to receive President Hoover and his intimates...