Word: gatherers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When President Hoover picked the Rapidan for his camp, he had no idea that his presence there would hurt, rather than help Virginia gather up private land to contribute as the Shenandoah National Park. The President's camp boomed mountainside values. The Madison Timber Corp., putting a $1,000,000 price on land sought by the State, argued that their property was worth it, not entirely as timber perhaps, but as a potential summer resort. The President, they claimed, had given the region priceless advertising and had put in an 8 mi. road worth $200,000. and power and telephone...
...Marion, Ohio, on June 16th according to yesterday's newspapers, the curtain rises on the last act of an American tragedy. On that day President Hoover and ex-President Coolidge, together with the chiefs of the Republican hierarchy, will gather beside the $800,000 marble mausoleum of Warren Gamaliel Harding for the somewhat belated dedication of the late President's tomb. The same editions carry the announcement of the day's decision by the United States Supreme Court denying ex-Secretary Fall's appeal from his prison sentence...
Totals 636 The Conference met in a cloud of gloom. Sessions were "secret," punctuated by leaks. Quarreling began on the first day and continued until the last. Nothing was accomplished except to make "personal contacts" and set up a permanent statistical bureau to gather data on wheat, already plentiful. The Conference disbanded, died an utter failure...
Next year, with all seven Houses in operation, intramural athletics will be held on a more formal basis, displacing the former interclass teams in the several sports. Members of the different House Committees will gather some time this week to discuss intramural sports and schedules, and make plans for next fall. Final arrangements will probably be made under the arrangement of A. W. Samborski '26, director of Intramural Athletics...
...kills the highwayman he instinctively tries to placate the ghost as his ancestors did. And nothing could be more prehistoric than the love-making of Tom Shellett and his half-sister Charity. The Squire marries, gaffers die, murder is done and bastards begotten, but every evening the village worthies gather at the inn to have their tankards and their talk. And here, Author Bullett implies, is Life; the rest is mere incidental History...