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...more fun than to combine the two. In high good humor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week boarded a train at Hyde Park, N.Y., to spend twelve days doing exactly that. Ostensible purpose of the trip was to see his daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren in Seattle, pick up first-hand impressions on how the Northwest felt about things in general and the New Deal in particular. But even if Franklin Roosevelt did not love campaigning so much that he does it from sheer force of habit, his visit to his grandchildren would inevitably have been the week...
...visit his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Boettiger. Last week, Publisher Boettiger revealed what almost no one else except the President was in a position to know. In his Seattle Post Intelligencer he announced that the President definitely intended to make the trip "to secure first-hand information on the accomplishments' in this area under his administration...
...found his son after the search described in his famed My Hunt after the Captain. As a Supreme Court Justice he often visited Mrs. Findlay, said that her face as a little girl was the most beautiful he had ever seen. Last week, Mrs. Findlay gave the President a first-hand account of the incident, urged him to attend the commemoration exercises at the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Antietam, in which Captain Holmes was wounded, Sept. 16-17. The President, although scheduled to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the signing of the Constitution with a Washington speech...
...father's office in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center along with three of his brothers. Brother John D. Ill helps on Rockefeller policies. Brother Nelson, supposed to have been the apple of his grandfather's eye, specializes in real estate. Brother Winthrop is the first Rockefeller to take a first-hand interest in oil since the dynasty was founded. Having just completed a year of postgraduate work at Harvard, young Brother David has not yet settled down...
...some 20 miles southeast of Annapolis. They had a look through the rambling clubhouse, traipsed over the 34-acre island on which it stands and viewed the Club's 136-acre duck-hunting preserve. After a jolly luncheon at the clubhouse, they returned to Annapolis with a solid first-hand knowledge of the place where most of their husbands will spend this week end, for Franklin Roosevelt last week made an extraordinary decision...