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...following day a picnic will be held at Kirtland Country Club for a day of recreation and informal meetings. The entire session has been reduced from three to two days for economic reasons...
...Hoover camp on the Rapidan President Roosevelt motored with family & friends for a Sunday picnic luncheon. He made part of the trip in Mrs. Roosevelt's roadster. It was his first full day outing since March...
...airplane attack on the 'Portland' would not be much of a picnic for the aviators," said Commander R. S. Williams, professor of Naval Science and Tactics, yesterday to a CRIMSON representative, discussing the newly commissioned "treaty cruiser" which is now open to the public Saturday and Sunday afternoons in the Boston Navy Yard. The ship is being inspected by members of the Naval Science department. "There are eight five inch anti-aircraft guns which can shoot 78-pound shells eight miles up into the air, and eight 50-calibre anti-aircraft machine game. If by any chance as airplane should...
Next day the demonstrations became a big, grim picnic. Sandwiches, foraged from nearby restaurants, were passed around. From the county jail came coffee. Someone got hold of a gavel, used it to beat time for a song. Pinocle games started. Other groups squatted against the walls, swapped stories...
After two days & nights authorities decided that the picnic had lasted long enough. Police spent two hours gently herding out the crowd. From the roof deputy sheriffs used a fire hose to quench the spirits of some 500 or 600 who tried to force their way back inside. ¶ Some 4,000 Nebraska farmers slept on the State Fair Grounds two miles out of Lincoln one night last week. Next morning they hitched up their overalls, raised their banners, marched shouting and singing to the Capitol. Half of them got into the legislative chamber, presented to a joint session...