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...Manhattan last week came Governor General Leonard Wood of the Philippine Islands. From Manhattan last week went 1,200 U. S. citizens, bound for the Citizens' Military Training Camp at Plattsburg, N. Y. Had General Wood visited the station to watch their departure, these citizen-soldiers might well have saluted him. For he is the father of the Plattsburg Idea; it is the result of his work that 53 Plattsburg-like camps will this summer give military training to some...
...self-sufficient unit which will be designated the "Munitions Battalion" for some obscure reason. Their station will be near Washington. At the end of their college term, they will be assembled and given an intensive military course until college reopens. Their training will be similar to that given at Plattsburg before...
...President finished breakfast, glanced at his morning mail, then climbed in his punctual limousine, sped* to Plattsburg, N. Y. He arrived. Cannon boomed 21 times, buglers sounded the Presidential flourish, the regimental band struck up the Star Spangled Banner and Hail to the Chief. Within five minutes, the Commanderin-Chief of the Army and Navy was on the reviewing stand, flanked by Col. John H. Hughes, commander of the Plattsburg military training camp, and Major General C. P. Summerall. Before them marched 1,600 citizen soldiers. Then Mr. Coolidge proceeded to inspect the camp in general and the mess hall...
...Coolidge at Amherst, an honest publicity errand for the Grand Traverse Cherry Growers of Michigan. ¶Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg flitted in and out at White Pine Camp during most of the week. He conferred with the President on Mexico and the World Court, left for Plattsburg, N. Y., where he made a speech on disarmament, said that: 1) the U. S. is "working to make the Geneva meeting a success"; (2) "We will not accept supervision of any outside, body, or be subject to inspection or control by foreign agencies." Mr. Kellogg returned to the Presidents...
Dwight Filly Davis Jr., who received a "Louisville Slugger" ball bat autographed by Babe Ruth, because he was judged the best soldier-athlete at the Citizens Military Training Camp at Plattsburg...