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Early one sunny afternoon last week the Coast 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...
...days before, James Roosevelt had gone ashore by plane from the cutter with the news that his father was playing politics with his naval aide, Captain Wilson Brown, his military aide, Colonel Edwin M. Watson. The Press now wanted to know who had won. Franklin Roosevelt looked blank until someone explained they meant the dice-and-pin game called "Politics" (TIME...
From the Coast Guard cutter Potomac somewhere in the Bahamas last week, President Roosevelt dispatched two invitations by wireless. One went to the Hon. Sir Bede (pronounced Beedy) Clifford, His Majesty's Governor and Commander-in-Chief at Nassau, to have lunch next day aboard the Potomac. The other went to the White House staff and correspondents twiddling their thumbs in Miami. Would they like to see what President Roosevelt looked like after a week...
...first necessity was to find a seaworthy substitute for Vincent Astor's Nourmahal, the "million dollar yacht" which sounded too plutocratic in the ears of ordinary voters in an election year. That problem was solved by the Coast Guard which converted for the President's use a cutter rechristened the Potomac. Second necessity was to find substitutes for Mr. Astor and the socialite group of Long Islanders and Wall Streeters who in other years had been the Presidential fishing companions...
Colonel Edward Starling of the Secret Service and the converted Coast Guard cutter Potomac last week arrived in Miami. The same day two of the Navy's most up-to-date destroyers, the Monaghan and the Dale skidded into Port Everglades. The U. S. was mobilizing on Florida. Same day in Washington Mrs. Roosevelt wrote in her syndicated diary...