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...Early this week the President set out for Pulpit Harbor, Me., to board Manhattan Socialite Harrison Tweed's 56-ft. schooner Sewanna, lately rented by Son James, for a fortnight's cruise up the coast to Nova Scotia and back to Campobello Island. "I'm going to take a complete rest," the President told his Hyde Park neighbors last week, "except that I shall have to read 40 or 50 dispatches a day and sign a bucketful of official mail every few days. I'll have to do this unless, of course, I get lost...
...young friends, both fond of fishing & sailing, stood on New Brunswick's Campobello Island and looked across the water. They saw the 20-ft. tide of the Bay of Fundy seethe and storm between the rocky islands on the border between Maine and Canada, flooding the basins of Cobscook and Passamaquoddy Bays. One of the men was a promising young engineer named Dexter Parshall Cooper. His youthful companion, a rising young politician, was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Engineer Cooper explained a great dream of his: to throw a string of dams between the islands, harness that galloping tide to make...
...youngest son, John, who had just jumped a $10 bail after having been arrested for driving 54 m. p. h. in Irvington, N. Y.; 2) congratulate his next youngest son. Franklin Jr., on his 21st birthday; 3) see his wife who motored down for the birthday celebration from Campobello Island, N. B. where she had spent three weeks in profound silence...
...small electric stove on the third floor of the White House was all that provided the President of the U. S. with hot food. Rated capacity of the stove was three modest meals at a time. Franklin Roosevelt was keeping bachelor hall. Mrs. Roosevelt had scampered off to Campobello Island in Canada. Left in the White House with the President were only his sick secretary, Louis McHenry Howe, Mrs. Howe and Personal Secretary Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand. Since neither the President nor ailing Mr. Howe could well go out to meals, it was up to the ladies to take turns...
...Tracy episode kindled into flame bad feeling already caused by complaints that Viva Villa was rowdily derogatory to revolutionary Mexico. Nellie Campobello, adopted daughter of the late Pancho Villa, now director of the dance department of the public education ministry, called the film an insult to Mexico" because one scene in it depicted her father experimenting with a civilized bathroom as though he had never seen one before...