Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wheel of the trim little schooner Sewanna, the best yachtsman the nation ever had for President put out from Pulpit Harbor, Me. early last week with Sons James, John and Franklin Jr. for shipmates, a crew of two. "I haven't the faintest idea where I'm going, except to work to the east'ard," he told newshawks before casting off. "I'm just going to loaf and have a good time...
...Sewanna's wake trailed the destroyer Hopkins, for Secret Service and wireless men; the Presidential yacht Potomac, for secretaries, emergencies and fishing jaunts; the schooner Liberty, for newshawks. First day's run brought the President to Bucks Harbor, off South Brooksville, Me. Next noon he put in at Mount Desert Island's Seal Cove for a visit from Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, wife, son and three daughters. Dressed in old pants, blue sweater and floppy white hat, Franklin Roosevelt received them with a day's growth of stubble on his chin, kept the Admiral...
...cold drizzle, decided to stay put for the day. Late that afternoon, looking healthier than he had since he arrived from his West Indies cruise last spring, the President was ferried over to the Potomac for a bath, a rubdown and his first shave since leaving Pulpit Harbor five days before...
...Francisco took the visiting dentists at their face value, bedecked the city with lavender & white bunting (A. D. A. colors), supplied special free trips to the two great bridges being constructed across San Francisco Harbor. The Glad Tiding Temple Bible Institute's motorized loudspeaker serenaded the dentists with the refrain: "Oh, when we all pull together, together, together, how happy we will be." At the dentists' main banquet the St. Francis Hotel presented a huge confection in the shape of a full denture, cookies shaped like molars...
...Early this week the President set out for Pulpit Harbor, Me., to board Manhattan Socialite Harrison Tweed's 56-ft. schooner Sewanna, lately rented by Son James, for a fortnight's cruise up the coast to Nova Scotia and back to Campobello Island. "I'm going to take a complete rest," the President told his Hyde Park neighbors last week, "except that I shall have to read 40 or 50 dispatches a day and sign a bucketful of official mail every few days. I'll have to do this unless, of course, I get lost...