Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wind blew fitfully; long swells rolled outside the breakwater. The Presidential yacht Potomac, armed for the first time with .50-calibre machine guns fore & aft, prepared to cast off, tied up again at reports of rougher weather coming. From the rail of the Arauca, the 44 interned German sailors watched the drinks being passed around on the Potomac's afterdeck, stared at the Presidential party-Harry Hopkins, Cabinet Officers Robert Jackson and Harold Ickes, the President's physician, Rear Admiral Ross Mclntire, Secretaries "Pa" Watson and Steve Early...
...Board. Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones rode on the Florida-bound special with him. At Jacksonville the President paused to inspect the new $40,000,000 naval air training station. And out on the fishing grounds a seaplane shuttled back & forth, bearing messages from Washington and answers from the yacht. To onlookers who watched the Potomac sail, the swastika on the Arauca was a reminder of the force that, the world over, cut relentlessly into human rest...
...half maintenance of his yacht...
According to Commodore Roger Willcox '41, the Yacht Club will offer better opportunities to its members this spring than it ever has before. Willcox pointed out that the Student Employment Office repeatedly asks for experienced sailing instructors to fill camp or yacht club jobs...
...Community Sailing Association will need many instructors for its summer program in the Boston Community Houses, teaching boys' and girls' clubs the elements of sailing. Training for all these jobs will be provided in the Yacht Club's program which will get under way late this month, Willcox said...