IDAHO,REPUBLICANS: The Waikiki Conference

THE PRESIDENCY

This week President Roosevelt, tanned, gay and relaxed, returned to the U.S. after 29 days and 10,000 miles of absence from the August heat of Washington —and from the flickering European War. Perhaps his most important accomplish ment was a good vacation. Incidentally he had made a little political hay.

Military Voyage. Boarding a Navy heavy cruiser, a one-year-old veteran of 15 Pacific engagements, the President left San Diego Naval base the day after his Fourth Term acceptance speech, to rediscover the Pacific War. He lolled and rested for five days as...

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