Word: sequoia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Railroadmen were cheered last week, however, by what they took to be White House recognition of their plight. Having lately spent a week-end with President Roosevelt aboard the Sequoia, Editor Raymond Moley led off his main editorial in last week's issue of Today: "No friend of the New Deal is likely to grow enthusiastic over the progress of its railroad policies." And after listing all the railroad's woes, Editor Moley concluded: "There are many complaints from business, these days, that hardly stand examination. But these of the railroads are unquestionably an exception. . . . The Administration has a railroad...
...President boarded the Sequoia to spend the weekend talking with Raymond Moley. But even while cruising on the broad Chesapeake, he was not free from disturbing news. The Sequoia's wireless brought it to him: Henry T. Rainey of the snowy locks was dead in St. Louis (see p. 51). The Sequoia's radio sent back the President's words...
...morning of the races President Roosevelt left the Department of Commerce's inspection boat Sequoia which had brought him from New Haven, boarded the referee's boat, Dodger III, to watch the races. Going up the river, the Dodger III passed the Harvard freshman shell in which Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. was No. 6. The Harvard coxswain gave the order to "let her run" while father and son exchanged a wave...
...drought relief, signing two Federal crime bills, asking Congress to give Haiti left-over equipment of the U. S. Marines there and planning the wind-up of the session with House & Senate leaders, President Roosevelt went cruising down the Potomac last week on the Sequoia. With him went two baskets crammed full of official papers-each paper a problem. The President was tired, mentally and physically. But there could be no rest for him until the Capitol becomes empty and silent again this week or next...
...President of the U. S. bothers Franklin D. Roosevelt-less than it has many of his predecessors. Last weekend, however, he felt the need of some real privacy. Accompanied only by Mrs. Roosevelt, her friend Miss Lorena Hickok, his personal secretary Marguerite Le Hand, he boarded the Government yacht Sequoia and cruised down the Potomac to meditate on one of the Administration's major problems: how to get the wheels of heavy industry turning and employ the workers of heavy industry who in spite of PWA and NRA still remain idle...