Word: campobello
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., sailing near the Roosevelt estate at Campobello Island, were caught in a calm. Caretaker Franklin Calder put out from shore in a motorboat, towed them back. Two days later they sailed from Quebec on the Empress of Britain for a European honeymoon...
...went ashore last week and once more climbed back on to the front page. His seagoing sideburns were gone before he showed himself in range of a camera. A few minutes after dark his chartered schooner Sewanna dropped anchor in Friar's Bay below the Roosevelt cottage on Campobello Island, N. B. Forty red-coated Canadian police drawn up on the dock snapped him a brisk salute as the sleepy President went in to supper...
...Landon's acceptance speech (see below), trolled seven hours for tuna without getting a single strike. This week, bronzed and fit after a fortnight of his favorite sport, wearing new-grown mutton-chop whiskers like his late father's, the President ended his 417-mile cruise at Campobello Island, seeing his summer home for the first time since 1933. At week's end he planned to journey to Quebec for a one-day call on Canada's Governor General, Lord Tweedsmuir, then set out on a short motoring survey of New England's flood-control...
...Early this week the President set out for Pulpit Harbor, Me., to board Manhattan Socialite Harrison Tweed's 56-ft. schooner Sewanna, lately rented by Son James, for a fortnight's cruise up the coast to Nova Scotia and back to Campobello Island. "I'm going to take a complete rest," the President told his Hyde Park neighbors last week, "except that I shall have to read 40 or 50 dispatches a day and sign a bucketful of official mail every few days. I'll have to do this unless, of course, I get lost...
...young friends, both fond of fishing & sailing, stood on New Brunswick's Campobello Island and looked across the water. They saw the 20-ft. tide of the Bay of Fundy seethe and storm between the rocky islands on the border between Maine and Canada, flooding the basins of Cobscook and Passamaquoddy Bays. One of the men was a promising young engineer named Dexter Parshall Cooper. His youthful companion, a rising young politician, was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Engineer Cooper explained a great dream of his: to throw a string of dams between the islands, harness that galloping tide to make...