Word: rapidan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Major General James Guthrie Harbord, 72, board chairman of Radio Corp. of America, onetime chief of staff of the American Expeditionary Forces in France; and Anne Lee Brown. 55, great-granddaughter of Light Horse Harry Lee; both for the second time; in Rapidan...
...Some years ago Ramsay MacDonald, Premier of England, made a historic visit to the United States, during which he engaged in a famous secret conversation with the then President Herbert Hoover while both were sitting upon a log at the Rapidan Camp. . . . There have been many surmises and speculations as to what was said, but the veil of silence has remained unlifted until today. . . . I believe the time has come to make it public. I shall...
...first names for years. His pince-nez slide down his long snipe nose. He wears coats two sizes too big. His felt hat is generally cocked at a raffish angle. For weekends he goes off on a destroyer to sniff salt air or visits the Hoover camp on the Rapidan, now in charge of marines. In his office he scorns details. When mail stacks up too high before him, he sweeps it impatiently into a basket, sends it out to his assistants with a: "Let 'em answer it." He is still troubled with bad spells of absentmindedness. Shortly after...
...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...
...historical importance." Nominee Thomas without a permit addressed 4,000 in the plaza: "This is not a political meeting, but a class in history. Next Monday your Superintendent of Public Education, William S. Vare, will introduce a distinguished historian, Herbert Clark Hoover, who will discuss wild life on the Rapidan...