Excursions
Dwight Eisenhower, General of the Army, and his four brothers (Milton, Earl, Arthur and Edgar), looking alike as five fish in a fry, hit out for Wisconsin's lakelands and their first vacation together since 1926. Governor Goodland wired a welcome, assigned the party two guides. Ike landed the first fish a muskellunge after a 15-minute fight. Then each of his brothers hauled in one. Six, they said, got away.
Maude Byrnes and Catherine Nimitz, wives of the Secretary of State and Chief of Naval Operations, showed up at a community canning center in Washington, helped put up peaches. It was "National...
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