Word: amberjack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning the President tarried at Gloucester to have some fun. Aboard the Amberjack II he received Captain Ben Pine of the racing fisherman Gertrude L. Thebaud. Their last meeting was in Washington whither "Cap'n" Pine had sailed the Thebaud to ask for a higher tariff on fish (TIME, May I). The President was given an oil painting of the Thebaud which moved him to exclaim: "I think the painting is particularly lovely and I'll hang it in my study in the White House. (Gesturing toward the Thebaud) Isn't she a grand vessel! Look...
President Roosevelt shaved and put on a clean white shirt (but no tie) to receive his other Gloucester callers-Col. Edward Mandell House, who summers nearby, and Director of the Budget Douglas to talk about pension cuts. Then the Amberjack II put-putted through the Annisquam Canal to miss rough water off Cape Ann and sailed on to Little Harbor, N. H. for the night. There next morning 15-month-old Granddaughter Sara Delano Roosevelt spent a few minutes in the President's arm, expressed delight with the Amberjack II's glittering brass work...
...driving run to Pulpit Harbor old salts gasped at the President's dexterity in zig-zagging the Amberjack II, rail down and all canvas drawing, through a labyrinth of coastal islands. Even the agile destroyers could not thread the risky channel at such breakneck speed, had to take to open water...
...destination. Son James took the Bernadou back to Boston to vote as a delegate in Massachusetts' Repeal convention. Scheduled to return on the Bernadou was Ambassador-at-Large Norman H. Davis, just back from the Geneva Arms Conference. He and the President would talk things over as the Amberjack II cruised north into colder weather...
...Amberjack II came reports that her Skipper-President had told Professor Moley to take up U. S.-Russian recognition at the World Conference with moon-faced twinkly-eyed Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinov. In London last week correspondents noticed that Comrade Litvinov, once accustomed to being snubbed by Statesman Stimson at Geneva, now hobnobs in friendly fashion with Snubber Stimson's successor, Secretary of State Cordell Hull. In the lobbying skirmish fortnight ago to get Vice Chief U. S. Delegate Cox elected Chairman of the Conference Monetary Committee (TIME, June 26), Comrade Litvinov battled from the first...