Word: greenbrier
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...when it passed scheduled points. As for the hall being half-filled, this is another untruth. It was well filled but not packed and that I feel due to another last minute change in plans. The President was to have spoken in the open from the deck of The Greenbrier and amplifiers had been placed at a cost of $750 at the Ohio River waterfront for the purpose of enabling the crowds to hear him. Then the President did not speak at the waterfront due to the heavy rain and comparatively few people learned in time that...
...weather was wicked. It rained and blew as the President, after dedicating a monument at Cincinnati, proceeded down the newly-canalized Ohio River. The river steamer Mississippi, especially equipped for the President's ride to Louisville, went aground, forcing him to embark on the less comfortable lighthouse tender Greenbrier. Whipped by enormous winds, the yellow waters rose up into unwonted waves which battered and buffeted the President's craft most disrespectfully...
...Madison the Greenbrier paused for the President to receive Indiana's salute. Only four guns of the 21-gun salute were fired. Damp powder exploded one cannon, killing National Guardsman Robert Earle, injuring three others...
Louisville was soggy with rain when the Greenbrier docked there at dusk. Soggy too were the President's silk hat, his dress coat. Sportingly he remarked: "If I'm going to leave a trail of pneumonia behind me in the middle west, I at least ought to go along the trail myself...