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"Let me tell you, Alf Landon, if you succeed me at the White House you ought to get a boat and try out the Potomac River for fishing. I have taken week-end trips and they have done me a lot of good."
A year ago last week, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt met Governor Landon, this was the genial advice which he gave his rival in the Presidential campaign. (Last week, President Roosevelt commemorated the occasion by going fishing himself-not in the river Potomac, because he had repaired to Hyde Park-but...
The fishing trip started late the next afternoon when the President boarded the Potomac at Poughkeepsie's wharf. Mrs. Roosevelt, White House attaches and a hundred or so neighbors were on hand to see him off. Aboard were WPAdministrator Harry L. Hopkins, who usually falls asleep as soon as...
Next day, convoyed by the destroyer Selfridge, the Potomac cruised off Montauk Point, the eastern tip of Long Island. The fishing was atrocious. First day's catch was one bass and "two miserable what-nots," one of which attached itself to the Presidential line. Next day's was...
After profits had fallen from plus $1,277,000 in 1929 to minus $203,000 in 1932, Depression might have conquered the company forever but for the clever maneuvers of young George Strohmeyer. This tall, red-haired young man with a fondness for dogs and fishing joined Childs in 1927...