Word: sequoias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday the Roosevelts and the MacDonalds went for a seven-hour cruise down the Potomac on the Sequoia. Because it was chilly on deck the President and the Prime Minister sat below talking, talking, talking, mostly about disarmament and how to bring the moribund Geneva Conference back to life and a happy ending. Back at the White House Mrs. Roosevelt scrambled some eggs in a chafing dish for family supper...
...capital to petition the Tariff Commission for higher fish duties. Up to the Navy Yard to greet them, as one good sailor to another, drove President Roosevelt. With him was Britain's Prime Minister. They had just returned from a day's cruise on the Sequoia...
...week when its fish turned Democratic and refused to take President Hoover's bait. As in Ossabaw Sound off Georgia the week before, the President trolled his line for hours in the waters about Fernandina but caught nothing worth keeping. Disgusted, he ordered the U. S. S. S. Sequoia, his holiday craft, to wind its way down the coast through the twisty inland waterway to better fun and fishing. Progress was slow through shoal waters. Twice the Sequoia grounded. The President baked in the sun, played Hoover-ball, worked at a desk set up under an awning...
...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...