Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointed a new Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, a few settled matrons, now going on 45, were able to turn back to their memory books and heave a historical sigh. They were women who in July 1916, were young belles at Long Island's fashionable Locust Valley...
...this and more befell the boys who trained with the Yale Unit at Locust Valley in 1916. Under Calvin Coolidge two new sub-Cabinet posts were set up: Assistant Secretaries of War and of Navy for Aeronautics. To the first Trubee Davison was appointed. To the second, three years later, David Ingalls...
Lieut. Commander Robert Lovett became a banker, a partner in Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. So did his chum of Locust Valley, Yale and Dunkirk, Lieut. Commander Artemus Gates who became president of the New York Trust Co., a director of many corporations including TIME Inc. Early this year Franklin Roosevelt revived the post of Assistant Secretary of War for Air (it had lapsed under the New Deal) and named Bob Lovett to the job. Last week he moved again, appointed a new Assistant Secretary of Navy for Air-this time Artemus Gates. In 25 years the Yale Unit had flown...
None of the students at Wilkes-Barre had ever done manual labor; one boy was so alarmed by the unknown ordeal that he prepared himself with typhoid injections. They live in the 150-year-old house of a retired Wyoming Valley lawyer-farmer. They pay $50 (some have scholarships) for the four-week session, for food, staff salaries, etc. Camp director is young (32), pipe-smoking Edward Wright, teacher (Fieldston School), New York City Republican reform politician (he ran for the City Council last year). On his staff are a medical student, who looks after campers' hurts, an educational...
After lunch, students listen to a speaker or make a field trip. Their most exciting trip: into a coal mine. They also swim, play tennis and badminton. After supper they have discussions (no cuts) on conditions in the Valley, on national problems, on foreign affairs. Wednesday and Saturday evenings are free for square dances, movies, bridge, reading...