Word: sequoia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington meeting of the "Committees of Twelve" in each of the twelve Federal Reserve districts to speed up business recovery. ¶ President Hoover and a stag party of eight went fishing for hardheads and sea trout for several days down Chesapeake Bay aboard the U. S. S. Sequoia...
...Trumbull portrait of Washington in the City Hall. Then she motored out over dirt roads bordered with Spanish moss to see the Magnolia and Middleton Place Gardens, lush and lovely in early Southern spring. Back in Charleston the First Lady boarded the Department of Commerce's inspection boat Sequoia to cruise Florida waters. Mrs. Hoover's journey was saddened when she learned that Mrs. Howard E. Coffin, her good friend whom she was planning to visit at Sapeloe Island, had died of heart disease...
Hunting over Sequoia National Park. Calif, for a stream upon which to alight an eared grebe spied a fine dark river with curiously straight and even banks. The grebe swooped, skidded down upon a wet. hard highway, died a few days later despite ministrations by kind park employes...
...sure this was a sequoia tree and not a sprout from Paul Bunyan's famous cornstalk whose top, when it was cut, whistled through the air for six weeks before it hit the ground...
President Hoover went down from Washington overnight aboard the S. S. Sequoia, a small Department of Commerce inspection boat. Landing near Norfolk, he went on out to the windswept dunes at the cape. There were gathered 10,000 people, including Governor Pollard of Virginia and Episcopal Bishop Arthur C. Thomson. Great black clouds whipped by a strong wind massed overhead. The President took his place in the open grandstand. Angry lightning glittered across the sky. The singing of "America" was accompanied by the boom of thunder. The wind rose to a shriek. "Our Father Who art in Heaven," began Bishop...