Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simms, former Congresswoman from Illinois and daughter of Mark Hanna, filed a civil suit against some 400 defendants to clear up old claims and establish positive title to the famed Trinchera Ranch in southern Colorado, which she bought last February for a reported $500,000. Some of the defendants: Scout Kit Carson (once stationed near the Trinchera as commandant), Presidents James Buchanan, Chester Alan Arthur, William McKinley...
...Judges of the $250,000 Movie Quiz Contest, announced last week: New York's Representative Bruce Barton, Boy Scout Leader James E. West, Tennist Helen Wills Moody, Author Hendrik Willem van Loon, Mrs. Ogden Reid, vice president of the New York Herald Tribune...
Only the momentum of his best-seller reputation keeps Author Hutchinson going. As Once You Were, the story of a middle-aged writer named Piers Exceat who retires to a small island-estate to re-live a sort of Boy Scout boyhood, makes Author Hutchinson's If Winter Comes seem in retrospect like hard-hammered realism. Not only has his sentimentality aged terribly but even his style has become wrinkled and chapfallen...
Every patriot knows that the U. S. flag should never touch ground or trail in water. In Newark, N. J. superpatriotic Scoutmaster Stephen F. Walker of Boy Scout Troop No. 77 shuddered last year when two aluminum reproductions of the great seal of the U. S. were embedded in the floor of Newark's Post Office Building, where heedless visitors trod on them. Scoutmaster Walker protested to the postmaster, to Postmaster General Farley, to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, to the President of the U. S. Then he enrolled other superpatriots in his crusade, marched in a cordon...
...most puzzling answers were three which professed nudism, one which held to the Boy Scout oath and one asserting "anachronism...