THE PRESIDENCY: Clubjellows

Franklin Roosevelt last week looked for the first time on a long colonial building with a low veranda and a row of white-washed trees on its broad, flat lawn. Not for lack of invitations had he never before visited the Jefferson Islands Club in Chesapeake Bay. The founders of this sporting organization include some of the most famed Democrats in the land: Owen D. Young, John W. Davis, John J. Raskob, Senators Pittman. Tydings, Robinson. Logically they might have expected a Democratic President who liked outdoor fun to drop in upon them often....

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