Word: scout
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enclosed pamphlet entitled "Other Things the Army Does Besides Fight," an address delivered by Mr. Weeks when he was Secretary of War? He will probably refuse to read it, or, if he does read it, he will do so as superficially as he read that part of the Scout Manual quoted by you in answer to his letter. . . . I feel certain that if ever Kingsley Bleeds, it will NOT be from wounds received in defense of the innumerable benefits he enjoys as a member of this nation-benefits won and preserved by patriots-not by pacifists...
...wonder what manner of gentleman Mr. Custis Knapp, U. S. A. retired, considers himself? Who is he to criticize Scout Leeds for correcting TIME in placing the Army and the Boy Scouts under the same head...
...Chief Scout Executive Boy Scouts of America New York...
Ferdinand Magellan went around the world in three years. Today, aviators are planning to do the deed in 15 days. But two Polish young men-Scoutmaster Jerzy Jelinski and Scout Henry Smosarski-are in no such hurry. They may take as long as the late Senor Magellan, for they are spreading good will among the Boy Scouts of the world. Fifteen months ago, they left Warsaw in a white-painted ("A Scout Is Clean") Ford, motored and lectured through Europe, were photographed with Benito Mussolini. Then they chugged across northern Africa, arrived in Manhattan on an export steamer a fortnight...
...Scouts, too, have been trekking through foreign lands. Sixteen Eagle Scouts from Wayne, Pa., were last fortnight welcomed by the acting Lord Mayor of London. Eight Sea Scouts from Chicago constitute part of the crew of the John Borden-Field Museum expedition, now collecting fauna in Arctic regions. Two Scouts from Excelsior, Minn., are officially carrying greetings to Denmark. Possibly one Scout will accompany Commander Richard E. Byrd's expedition to the South Pole...