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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 on the after deck...
...great hull plowed into mountainous grey-streaked combers and a 60-m. p. h. head wind. Speed was cut to 7 knots, just enough to maintain steerage but so vast is the Majestic that first-class passengers remained in comparative comfort. At lunch time she creaked violently twice, a shudder ran down the ship. Few passengers noticed...
...House have been provided a much more popular and natural basis for intramural sports than was available under the old plan of inter-class competition. The report of the first inter House Athletic committee for the year 1931-32 shows that in almost every sport there were from twice to three times as many men playing under the House Plan as under the former class system...
...theatre, whose 6,200 seats make it the world's largest, the "Rothafeller" Center, for celebrated Showman Samuel Lionel O'Roxy") Rothafel was to produce this week-and as many weeks thereafter as he could make the $85,000 "nut" (overhead)-a monster variety bill twice daily...
...Sandusky, Ohio, inmates of the Ohio Soldiers' & Sailors' Home give local bootleggers, prostitutes & gamblers rushing business twice a month when the pension checks arrive. When five inmates were taken to the Home's infirmary poisoned by liquor at 25? the quart. State Senator Joseph N. Ackerman asked Ohio's Governor George White to place the area surrounding the Home under martial law to correct "rotten" conditions...