Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them there. He was in black bear country. When the train reached Alliance, Ohio, Republican Senator Roscoe Conkling McCulloch, up for election, boarded it, rode along with the President where everybody could see him. At Bedford the train stopped again to take on Mrs. Hoover, fresh from a Girl Scout convention at Indianapolis (see col. 3). President Hoover took her in his arms, greeted her with a kiss on the rear platform...
...16th annual convention of the Girl Scouts of America at Indianapolis last week went "Buffalo," their honorary president-Mrs. Lou Henry Hoover. Dressed in a natty scout uniform she posed with the delegates. When a uniformed constable attempted to marshal the posers, she cried: "Here, here! We don't want any policemen in this picture!" She instructed a group of newshawks: "Girl Scout work teaches young girls the importance of housework. You know, I think it takes just as much courage to wash dishes three times a day as it does to go out and shoot a bear." From...
...Dean Sperry, of the Divinity School. The Social Service Committee during the past week has been interviewing students interested in doing volunteer work at the settlement houses in Greater Boston, and has also secured about 200 passes for football games at the Stadium for members of boys clubs and scout troops. The speakers Committee has already filled two requests for Harvard students to act as speakers...
...Scout's Pastime...
...flair as a publicist. Expeditions to strange places took his fancy. He developed a close contact with the New York Times and put G. P. Putnam's Sons into the business of publishing expeditions. Putnam books this autumn, for example, include Richard Evelyn Byrd's Little America, Scout Paul Siple's A Boy Scout With Byrd, volumes by Sea-Diver William Beebe, Artist-Explorer Rockwell Kent, Jungle-Tramper Mrs. Martin Johnson. Even Publisher Putnam's son has been publicized as an explorer (David Goes A-Voyaging by David Binney Putnam, in 1928 when...