Word: quantico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Municipal Airport for the 10th annual All-American Air Maneuvers: four days of races, aerobatics and conferences. Mostly privately owned and flown, more than 200 of the planes present were Taylor "Cubs," Aeronca and Taylorcraft; 40 others were righting and bombing machines from the U. S. Marine Base at Quantico, Va. In a speech before the meet, Contest Chairman Carl Fromhagen enthusiastically declared: "We're playing directly to the grandstands this year. We have more stunts in this show than we know how to get into the program...
...weekend cruise with Secretary Ickes, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Josephine Roche, Theodore F. Green, erudite freshman Senator from Rhode Island, and Governor Murphy, Franklin Roosevelt sailed down to Quantico, Va., where he attended to one international affair by broadcasting to France on the occasion of the dedication of the A. E. F.'s war memorials. Thereafter he returned to Washington hoping he would not have to attend to another international affair, the war in China. Attending to it would mean recognizing that war exists within the meaning of the Neutrality Act, and he and Secretary Hull had resolutely...
...When the National Press Club held its annual Anchors Aweigh party, the President motored down to Quantico, Va. to throw out the first ball in the game between Congressmen and Newshawks. Having waited at the Marines' ball park for 15 minutes in a downpour without seeing any signs of his hosts, he drove down to the dock where the party had remained weatherbound on the steamer which had brought it from Washington. On the gangplank he witnessed the presentation by Senator Tom Connally of a new Texas sombrero to Vice President Garner in restitution for one Mr. Garner lost...
...lean, Kentucky-born Major Stonewall Jackson of the 12th U. S. Infantry, no kin to his famed namesake, commanding a "Confederate" force of 1,000 Army men and R.O.T.C. boys in a re-enactment of one of the South's proudest battles. A thousand Marines from Quantico, in special blue fatigue uniforms, took the part of Union troops...
...health resort he visited in previous years: on every driveway in the Foundation grounds CCC men were posted as traffic officers, letting no car enter without a pass from Foundation headquarters, while around the Little White House was drawn a cordon of U. S. Marines, a picked detachment from Quantico. Of late the Secret Service has been obviously anxious about its charge's safety...