Word: week-ends
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...Krum Elbow, the estate of his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, who was on hand to greet her son. The Vincent Astors dropped in for luncheon and in the afternoon the President went swimming in his outdoor pool. Determined to be a country squire taking his ease, for the week-end at least, he refused to receive telephone calls even from members of his Cabinet...
...week-end cruise down the Potomac aboard the Sequoia President Roosevelt wrote out in long hand the radio speech he delivered Monday night to start his nation-wide re-employment campaign...
...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...
...possibility of a temporary blanket code for all industry hung over Washington and the nation all last week. General Johnson felt that some such summary step was necessary to help purchasing power and consumption catch up with production and prevent a fresh collapse. He drafted a 35-hour, $14-per-week sample but nowhere in the Recovery Act could his lawyers find authority to compel industries to accept such a set of regulations until they framed their own. Over the week-end General Johnson put up to the President a proposal for issuing such a temporary general code and following...
Angeles National Forest in the mountains just north of Pasadena, Calif. The men of this camp work eight hours a day five days a week in the hot sun on firebreaks, fire-roads and trails, and on what are called erosion works. Every week-end 50% of the camp personnel is required to remain in camp at all times in case of a fire outbreak. A "fire suppression" crew of 24 C.C.C. men are on duty at all hours to answer fire calls with a fire truck...