Word: sequoias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When adjournment was postponed the President could only go philosophically to bed. Sunday morning he awoke without the light-hearted feeling he had a right to expect. Instead of voyaging down the Potomac on the Sequoia he stayed at home talking with upset Congressmen by telephone. On Monday, two conferences with Chairman Buchanan of the House Appropriations Committee having failed to turn any means of untangling the snarl, the President decided to compromise. He offered to up the cotton loans from 90 to 100, make subsidy payments quicker and easier (see p. 131. The jaded legislators clutched at this...
Most weekends Franklin Roosevelt goes cruising on the Sequoia to get away from his troubles. Last week he took his troubles with him in the persons of two Senators and his No. i relief administrator. South Carolina's James Byrnes and Kentucky's Alben Barkley this week will have to deal with a Senate disposed to gnaw and shred the President's tax bill (see p. 16). Harry Hopkins is trying to keep the President's promise to put 3,500,000 unemployed to work by Nov. 1 and at the same time keep organized labor...
...evening, taking Undersecretary of the Interior Charles West, and two of his female secretaries, Franklin Roosevelt motored out into the Maryland countryside for a picnic supper. For the still hotter weekend, he took Senator and Mrs. Wheeler, Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Mrs. Johnson aboard the Sequoia to fish on the lower Rappahannock...
Embarking at Annapolis on the Sequoia, the President was accompanied by Senator Robinson, Postmaster General Farley, Speaker Byrns, Vice President Garner. After an afternoon's fishing in the Bay they went ashore at Jefferson Islands, later to find almost every good Democrat in the District of Columbia on hand for an old fashioned political get-together...
What balm was mutually poured on hurt wounds, what pledges of goodwill were exchanged during that happy Sunday, no one present cared to say. Sunday evening when the Sequoia docked at Annapolis, the President had nothing to say. Neither had Vice President Garner nor "General" Farley. Several hours later other members of the party got back to Washington, content but uncommunicative. One guest, breaking the golden silence on condition that he remain anonymous, confided that he had seen Secretary Ickes and Senator Tydings, arm-in-arm, laughing and jesting convivially...