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...President Roosevelt's week-end cruise took him down the Potomac on the Sequoia, into Chesapeake Bay and to Crisfield, Md. There he debarked and spent six hours sightseeing on the Eastern Shore. On the return trip he conferred with Secretary Ickes and General Johnson who had flown from Washington to board the Sequoia...
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...
...that many will go to the nation's most popular park, Yosemite, where Director Cammerer was due this week. Main gateway to the Yosemite is Merced, in central California. Pert, goodlooking college boys drive the buses and co-eds perform cheerfully but inexpertly as waitresses. Whopping groves of Sequoia gigantea help prepare you for the first glimpse of Yosemite Valley. Because it is more conceivable, less Dantesque than the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, it is perhaps the most solemn natural spectacle in the world. First the earth burst open, then a glacier, next an ancient lake hollowed...
...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...