THE PRESIDENCY: Brief Annals

Most of last week President Roosevelt spent:

¶ Sitting in a deck chair aboard the cruiser Houston as it carried him toward Hawaii.

¶ Seeing at a distance one coral atoll belonging to the Republic of Mexico.

¶ Watching the dirigible Macon nose its way out of a cloud accompanied by two baby airplanes, hover overhead, drop a bundle of newspapers on the Houston, and head back for its Sunnyvale, Calif, base, 1,200 miles away.

¶ Receiving reports on the San Francisco strike and radioing Madam Secretary Perkins: "You may say that I have...

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