Word: sequoia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boarding a train one night Franklin Roosevelt was whisked to New London. There on the Thames, aboard the Sequoia, he entertained his old friend Felix Frankfurter. To the Presidential ear the Harvard professor confided that he had been asked to furnish a list of important works that he had never read. Dr. Frankfurter's list...
...rewriting the Constitution. While the country stewed over his provocative generalities, the No. 1 New Dealer who now wants to deal again, drove to the Washington Navy Yard, waved a cheery good-by to friends ashore, sailed down the Potomac for a weekend's rest on the Sequoia...
...With all his pressing program the President found time to entertain guests, at the White House, Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago, Governor & Mrs. Lehman of New York, disabled veterans (at their annual garden party); on the Sequoia cruising in the Potomac, Judge Samuel Rosemann, who was his counsel when he was Governor of New York...
...setting up machinery to spend his $4,000,000,000 works fund and trying to spur Congress into action, the President got some relief when, for the first time this year, the weather was pleasant enough for him to spend an afternoon on the Potomac aboard the Sequoia. ¶ Fortnight ago the President and Chief Justice Hughes considered the disposal of that half of Oliver Wendell Holmes's $550,000 estate which the Supreme Court Justice willed to the U. S. Last week with no less than five bills pending in Congress to use the money...
University: "Two Woman in Red," 3.30, 6.30, 9.30. "Sequoia...