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From a “Rum Chaser” to a “Drug Runner”
For fourteen years between1920 and late 1933, the United States was “dry.” The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, “Volstead Act,” prohibited alcoholic sales, manufacture, and consumption throughout the United States. Still...
Founding the United Nations in San Francisco
Founding the United Nations in San FranciscoEighty years ago on June 25, 1945, the Charter of the United Nations was adopted unanimously in the San Francisco Opera House and signed the following day at Herbst Theatre Auditorium in the Veterans War Memorial Building. ...
Henry J. Kaiser, FDR’s Dynamo
Henry J. Kaiser, FDR’s DynamoSources: Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II by Arthur Herman Henry J. Kaiser was described as “a dynamo” by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Kaiser became the symbol of America as the “arsenal of...
Atlantic Conference With Winston Churchill The Foundation for the United Nations – August 1941
USS POTOMAC MINI-HISTORY BY WALTER ABERNATHY This presidential yacht, off the coast of New England for some relaxation and to escape the Washingtonheat and humidity. It was expected to be the usual fishing routine on the Potomac with the traditionaldaily...
Florida Fishing Trip 1941 & The Lend-Lease Act of 1941 (The Aid to Democracies Act)
USS POTOMAC MINI-HISTORY BY WALTER ABERNATHY The mooring was poor, the seas rough. The Presidential Yacht, the USS Potomac, was rolling continually from 25 to 30 degrees and yawed wildly during the night of March 26, 1941, while anchored at Settlement Point in the...
USS Potomac Passenger With Most On-board Miles (Franklin D. Roosevelt excepted)
Murray the Outlaw of FalahillFALAApril 17, 1940 – April 5, 1952Sources: Fala Biography - FDR Library & Museum, Hyde Park; US Navy Ship Logs USS Potomac (AG25) Fala was President Roosevelt’s usual companion on his many cruises on the USS Potomac, including in...