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...week President Hoover went holidaying over Christmas and New Year's. Sunshine and blue skies met him when he detrained at Savannah. His guests: Supreme Court Justice Stone, Vermont's Senator Austin, Political Pundit Mark Sullivan and the ubiquitous Dr. Boone and Detective-Secretary Richey. Aboard the Sequoia, Department of Commerce inspection boat, and surrounded by a small flotilla carrying newshawks and bodyguards, the President's party wound through tidewater streams to emerge in Ossabaw Sound. Gus Ohman, a guide who had taken President Cleveland fishing in these Georgia waters, told President Hoover the fish were "biting...
President Hoover last week spent only one full working day at his White House desk. The first three days he was aboard the U. S. S. Sequoia, fishing in Chesapeake Bay. The last three were passed at the Rapidan camp. It was the President's first real fun in months...
...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...