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Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg. While President Roosevelt went off to the Jefferson Islands Club for his weekend "charm school'' party (see col. j), the van Zeelands stayed for a round of Washington parties, visited New York and it was announced that Premier van Zeeland would return this week...
...Jefferson Islands club, in Chesapeake Bay a few miles from Annapolis, is a onetime bootleggers' hideout which 90 wealthy men like Breckinridge Long, Winthrop W. Aldrich, Herbert Fleishhacker, Owen D. Young, August A. Busch Jr., Floyd B. Odium and Franklin Roosevelt remodeled as a bachelor club for shooting, fishing, escape from heat. Any club member can take the place over to give a party, giving advance notice so that members not invited will not be inconvenienced. At the three-day party staged by Member Roosevelt last week, Members Odium, Busch, Young, etc. were not present, for the gathering...
...risked their lives riding across the ruffled waters of Chesapeake Bay aboard a small tender. The Senate Ladies Club and a collection of wives of the Cabinet and of ex-officials (among them Widow Woodrow Wilson), were off on a jaunt to that sanctum of male Democratic leisure, the Jefferson Islands Club 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...
...cloakrooms at the Capitol, of followers who accused him of everything from aspirations for a third term, to a desire to promote Son James for President. He needed no eyeglasses to see for himself how his own majority leader, Senator Joseph T. Robinson (president of the Jefferson Islands Club), was on a rampage over the relief bill (see below). With his three-day propinquity and personality he hoped to close the political gap before it was too late, and all Washington was on its toes to see how successful he would...
...Solid South, bulwark and Gibraltar of Democracy, that gave us Franklin Delano Roosevelt as President of the U. S.?* I need not tell you how that solid, united support of the South saved our Nation from destruction. . . . It was a Virginian, George Washington. . . . It was another Virginian, Thomas Jefferson. . . . It was Old Hickory Jackson, from Tennessee. . . . We need, above all else, peace. . . . Our great Secretary of State, Cordell Hull of Tennessee. . . . Mrs. Earle . . . a daughter of the Blue Grass State of Kentucky...