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...Guard cutter Potomac finally brought a bronzed and beaming President back to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., from a 16-day fishing holiday. For three days while tornadoes had been uprooting towns through the South, killing over 400 citizens, the Potomac, warned of possible hurricanes at sea, had been dodging from cay to cay rather than risk crossing the open channel between Florida and the Bahamas. Gaily Franklin Roosevelt told waiting newshawks how only an hour before while the Potomac was steaming at ten knots, he had caught a bonito, trolling over the stern rail...
Good fishing at Mariguana yesterday. We are spending a quiet Sunday off Crooked Island and proceed to Cat Cay tomorrow. All well...
Like Will Rogers, Charles Curtis, Mrs. Edith Gait Wilson, Eugene Luther Vidal. Tom Mix and many another noted U. S. citizen, Wiley Post was part Indian. Born 36 years ago on a Texas farm, he was raised in the Indian Territory oil fields, showed an early mechanical bent. One cay a red-hot steel splinter flew into his left eye, blinded it. Given $1,800 disability compensation, he promptly bought an old "Canuck," was soon barnstorming the Southwest. In Sweetwater, Tex. he met & married a pretty 17-year-old girl named Mae Laine who regarded him and his occupation with...
...first report (six sentences from Cat Cay, Bahamas) was sent after he had transferred from the Farragut to Vincent Astor's Nourmahal aboard which were all the President's old socialite fishing cronies. It stated that the Governor of the Bahamas, Sir Bede Clifford and his lady, and the Duke of Kent and his lady had formally called upon President Roosevelt aboard the Nourmahal...
...second report (two sentences) told of the party's being joined at Lobos Cay by Son James Roosevelt who flew from Puerto Rico. His third report (three sentences) admitted arrival off Great Inagua Island, 500 miles at sea. His fourth report, equally brief, described swimming from the shore, the safe arrival of two seaplanesful of official mail when the Nourmahal touched at Crooked Island...