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...June, the President's hard money advisers sat in the seats of power. Secretary Woodin was ill and Dean Acheson was quietly running the Treasury. Hardmoney-men Sprague and George Leslie Harrison were in London tentatively arranging to stabilize the dollar. On June 29 Mr. Morgenthau sped to Campobello Island, was on the launch with Mrs. Roosevelt to greet the President as he sailed on the Amber jack II. On July 1, the President and Mr. Morgenthau boarded the cruiser Indianapolis and steamed southward. Two days later the cruiser's wireless ticked out the President's message...
...mouth. Mrs. Roosevelt operates Val-Kill shops, an enterprise which manufactures antique reproductions at Hyde Park. This is a non-profit concern. In the past five years Mrs. Roosevelt has picked up some $25,000 from endorsements, radio talks and writing. The Roosevelts maintain a summer place at Campobello. New Brunswick, another country place at Warm Springs, Ga., and their Manhattan town house. Hyde Park belongs to the President's mother, as does the Roosevelt fortune. The Franklin Roosevelts are not rich. It therefore behooves Mrs. Roosevelt to live in the White House within the $88,750 salary paid...
...mother was somewhere en route home from Campobello Island, N. B., but Elliott said he had talked "frequently" by long distance telephone with his father at the White House. "Father was very, very jovial," he said...
Most northerly point of President Roosevelt's vacation cruise was his summer home at Campobello Island, New Brunswick, four miles from Eastport, Me., which he visited for the first time since the shock of its cold waters brought on his paralysis twelve years ago. There, his most serious guest was Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, come to report that in spite of all his efforts, the Geneva Arms Conference had adjourned to October. Its 14-year record of accomplishment still o, many pronounced the Conference a dead fish. But President Roosevelt, bland, told a Campobello crowd...
...Southwest Harbor on Mt. Desert Island Mrs. Roosevelt popped in to spend a brief hour with her husband. Then she motored on toward Campobello, N. B., the President's 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...