THE PRESIDENCY - The Roosevelt Week

THE PRESIDENCY

The Roosevelt Week

The 7th regiment of Marines was kept discreetly out of sight when President Roosevelt, accompanied by Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins and Private Secretary Marguerite Lehand, arrived at Quantico to board the U. S. S. Sequoia for a week-end of fishing down the Potomac. The President wanted no military display of the fighting force he had mobilized for possible service in revolutionary Cuba, no semblance of a presidential review which might be misinterpreted in Latin America. Aboard the Sequoia he had to wait a half-hour for his son James to arrive by army plane from Boston and join his party. To kill time he summoned Col. Richard P. ("Terrible Terry") Williams, commander of the 7th Regiment, to the Sequoia's deck, discussed the Cuban situation with him, told him what would be expected of him and his men if sent to intervene.

When the Sequoia got down the river a strong wind was blowing, no fish biting. P: Theodore Roosevelt Jr. who called his fifth cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt a "maverick" in the 1920 campaign, was a White House luncheon guest last week. Back from the Philippines where he had been President Hoover's Governor General, he told President Roosevelt of his travels through 17 countries on his westbound journey home. P: President Roosevelt proclaimed Oct 8-14 as Fire Prevention Week. P: To the American Bankers Association convening in Chicago the President sent a message exhorting its members to loosen up on commercial credit to help along the NRA drive. P: President Roosevelt got a business letter last week from the son of President Cleveland. As counsel for the Individual Brand Petroleum Association, Richard Folsom ("Dick") Cleveland, famed for the great revolt he led against the Princeton Club system two decades ago wrote to protest NRA's price-fixing for oil which would tend to put out of business his clients, small independent gasoline station owners in 26 states.

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