Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bevy of female newsgatherers hovering around '"Buffalo" (Girl Honorary Scout President Lou Henry Hoover)-for it was she and not Mrs. Herbert Hoover, First Lady of the Land-all squatted down just as though they were beside a campfire in the woods instead of in a Manhattan art gallery whither ''Buffalo" had come for the opening of an Americana exhibition...
...know," continued "Buffalo," 'I never give interviews. But this isn't an interview. It is just a few moments' quiet talk about the Girl Scouts...
...told them the three things the Girl Scouts need most...
...Leaders. . . . Any nice lady can be friendly to a little girl, but she cannot be a Scout leader without training. So we have training classes in camps and universities and these are why we need money...
Earlier that day "Buffalo" had exclaimed: "I think it is so appropriate to have Girl Scouts associated with an exhibition of antique furniture." The antiques - $2,000,000 worth of them including Gilbert Stuart paintings, Queen Anne chairs, a Chippendale clock, a Goddard block front desk - had been lent by people like Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Mrs. Francis Patrick Garvan, Henry F. du Pont, Walter Jennings. Admissions were charged for the benefit of a $3,000,000 Girl Scout fund which is to be raised in the next five years. Mrs. Hoover brought news from Washington that the American...