Word: sequoia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swarms of sand flies and mosquitoes penetrated President Roosevelt's cabin as he sailed down the Potomac in the U. S. S. Sequoia last weekend. The pesky insects annoyed the President almost as much as the knowledge that U. S. Industry was lagging behind his recovery program (see p. 12). To plan ways & means of curbing downright refusal by Industry to cooperate with the Government, should such a situation arise, the President had taken along Attorney General Cummings. What, if any, legal tactics were decided upon remained beneath their respective hats. But the President spared no praise in congratulating...
...wrote a pair of boys' books: Williams of West Point, Williams on Service. A law degree from the University of California made him eligible for the Judge Advocate General's Department in 1916. Odd jobs in the Army: feeding San Francisco earthquake refugees, administering Yosemite and Sequoia Parks, accompanying Pershing's punitive expedition to Mexico. In Washington during the War he went on the General Staff as chief of Purchase & Supply. It was he who conceived and directed the Wartime draft...
Because the House was itching not only to accept the Senate's 25% limitation but to cut the cuts back to 15%. President Roosevelt called a Sunday night conference at the White House on his return from a cruise down the Potomac on the Sequoia. To it he summoned Speaker Rainey, Majority Leader Byrns, half a dozen important House Democrats. For three hours he gave them a heart-to-heart. Director of the Budget Douglas had advised him to veto the whole appropriation bill, take the economy issue to the country by radio if Congress insisted upon a pension...
...Warren Delano Robbins as Minister to Canada, and Hugh Gibson, Ambassador to Belgium and for 25 years a career diplomat, to be Ambassador to Brazil. ¶Down the Potomac to Indian Head and back to Washington cruised President Roosevelt one balmy afternoon and evening last week. Also aboard the Sequoia were seven big-eyed girls from Manhattan's Todhunter School, guests of Mrs. Roosevelt, their onetime teacher...
President Roosevelt shook hands all around, congratulated the crew on the salute of 21 foghorn blasts the Thebaud had paid the Sequoia down the river. The fishermen gave the President a 50-lb. halibut. "Just about enough to feed my family," chuckled Mr. Roosevelt, before cracking the old joke about the young bride who ordered six halibut for dinner. The Wartime Assistant Secretary of the Navy remembered well how one of the fleet's schooners had been sunk by German submarines...