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...Miami, where Legion politicians had already lined up a third of the organization in a Bonus bloc, National Commander Edward A. Hayes cracked back: "I cannot agree." Mrs. Roosevelt flew right back to Washington as soon as the ceremonies were over. The President & friends drove to Yorktown, boarded the Sequoia for a weekend cruise up Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac...
...front cover) California is a phenomenon as well as a state. Its soil rises to the highest point in the 48 United States (Mt. Whitney, 14,496 ft.), sinks to the continent's deepest dimple (Death Valley, -276 ft.). In the fragrant gloom of Sequoia National Park indigenously grow some of the world's hugest trees; yet most Californians rest under the shade of the transplanted Australian eucalyptus. Across the State's deserts, prospectors still ride dusty, neat-footed burros, while at Santa Monica mechanics in the Douglas plant build some of the world's fastest...
Railroadmen were cheered last week, however, by what they took to be White House recognition of their plight. Having lately spent a week-end with President Roosevelt aboard the Sequoia, Editor Raymond Moley led off his main editorial in last week's issue of Today: "No friend of the New Deal is likely to grow enthusiastic over the progress of its railroad policies." And after listing all the railroad's woes, Editor Moley concluded: "There are many complaints from business, these days, that hardly stand examination. But these of the railroads are unquestionably an exception. . . . The Administration has a railroad...
...President boarded the Sequoia to spend the weekend talking with Raymond Moley. But even while cruising on the broad Chesapeake, he was not free from disturbing news. The Sequoia's wireless brought it to him: Henry T. Rainey of the snowy locks was dead in St. Louis (see p. 51). The Sequoia's radio sent back the President's words...
...morning of the races President Roosevelt left the Department of Commerce's inspection boat Sequoia which had brought him from New Haven, boarded the referee's boat, Dodger III, to watch the races. Going up the river, the Dodger III passed the Harvard freshman shell in which Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. was No. 6. The Harvard coxswain gave the order to "let her run" while father and son exchanged a wave...