Word: sequoia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...screwed more tightly to possibility, will please modern children with its modern setting. Better than the text grown-ups will like Mrs. Marjorie Flack Larsson's illustrations-water-colors and sketches with the low-to-the-ground perspective of childhood, showing Scamper skidding on the deck of the Sequoia, racing over the Mount Vernon lawn, traveling in Mrs. Roosevelt's knitting...
...July a slight cold helped him lose two of the seven pounds which he had picked up during his sailboat vacation. In September another head cold and touch of fever again confined him to bed & study, and left a hangover which required a weekend in the sun aboard the Sequoia to eradicate. Last time that he was indisposed was late in October, when he went to bed with what he called the "sniffles." Since then he has been taking sunlamp treatments...
Lots of warm sunshine on a two-day trip down the Potomac aboard the Sequoia knocked out the last remnants of President Roosevelt's cold. As Sunday's sun sank the yacht put in at Washington Navy Yard. At 8 130 he was in his White House study as visitors began to arrive in answer to a special call. In trooped dandified little Secretary of the Treasury Woodin, suntanned Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, portly Attorney General Cummings. At their heels came Federal Reserve Governor Black, R. F. C. Chairman Jones, Currency Comptroller O'Connor, Budget Director Douglas...
...regiment of Marines was kept discreetly out of sight when President Roosevelt, accompanied by Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins and Private Secretary Marguerite Lehand, arrived at Quantico to board the U. S. S. Sequoia for a week-end of fishing down the Potomac. The President wanted no military display of the fighting force he had mobilized for possible service in revolutionary Cuba, no semblance of a presidential review which might be misinterpreted in Latin America. Aboard the Sequoia he had to wait a half-hour for his son James to arrive by army plane from Boston and join his party...
...When the Sequoia got down the river a strong wind was blowing, no fish biting. ¶ Theodore Roosevelt Jr. who called his fifth cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt a "maverick" in the 1920 campaign, was a White House luncheon guest last week. Back from the Philippines where he had been President Hoover's Governor General, he told President Roosevelt of his travels through 17 countries on his westbound journey home. ¶ President Roosevelt proclaimed Oct 8-14 as Fire Prevention Week. ¶ To the American Bankers Association convening in Chicago the President sent a message exhorting its members to loosen...