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...single illness deprived of the enjoyment of activities which lesser men take as a matter of course, nothing is dearer than action. Last week, unchained from his desk at the White House, he had his fill of it. He was in Wilmington, Hyde Park, New York City, Washington. Gettysburg. He motored, visited the sick, planned a house, laid a cornerstone, picnicked, orated and dedicated...
President Roosevelt (Sun. 6:30 p.m., NBC-Blue, CBS, MBS) dedicates the Peace Monument at Gettysburg...
...houses flanking the waterway. The 22-mile section between Washington and Point of Rocks, Md., it may turn into a boating and canoeing paradise. There were also rumors of an elaborate scheme to use part of the canal as right-of-way for a national highway between Washington and Gettysburg...
...them Kenneth Roberts' ancestors (already well-known to his readers). A new Maine hero is Colonel Joshua Chamberlain, commanding the Twentieth Maine Volunteers, who later, as Governor, was universally denounced as a rabid tory. But for him. says Roberts, "the Union army would have lost the Battle of Gettysburg and, in all probability...
...Next week he will attend the wedding of his son John at Nahant, Mass., then successively help celebrate the 300th anniversary of the first landing of Swedes in America, at Wilmington, Del.; lay the cornerstone of the Federal building at the New York World's Fair; visit Gettysburg for the Battle's 75th anniversary; go to Marietta, Ohio for the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Northwest Territory; go calling in seven other States where his presence may help political friends up for election this autumn...