Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt patted his moist forehead, dictated a note to "My dear Bob" telling him he did not much care for the results of the committee's 14 weeks' work. Then he fled from the White House, fled from Washington. A week or ten days on the yacht Potomac, out on salt water, would be fine, and, so far as he could see, it was a good time to take a vacation...
Blitzkrieg. As Franklin Roosevelt this week boarded the Presidential yacht Potomac for a cruise, he had no more to say about the tax bill. He left it in the trembling hands of Congress...
...corporal. Heywood Hale Broun passed his physical exam, expected induction within a month. Robert P. Patterson Jr., son of the Under Secretary of War (see p. 28), turned up at Springfield Armory Arsenal working incognito as a machinist. J. P. Morgan gave Bundles for Britain the furnishings of the yacht Corsair IV, which is now in war service. Bundles will sell them for cash...
...things Filipino (except the opposition), and by a colorful personality that keeps him bounding into the limelight, he has kept first place among Island politicos for 21 years. But when the war broke out, Quezon was sick. U.S. observers were worried by his silence, his brooding on his yacht, his long rest-cure treatment at the health resort of Baguio in the hills. After his lifelong fight for Philippine independence, it seemed stranger still that he did not respond to the gigantic world struggle for democracy, with all that it meant to the independence of small nations...
...stock in Great Northern, Southern Pacific, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Northern Pacific, Western Pacific, he came into a control that enabled him to join the roads in a vast trunk system sprawling from Chicago to California. A lifelong yachtsman who had girdled the world under canvas, he once sailed his yacht Aloha to Gibraltar from Sandy Hook in 16 days...