On Sunday, May 26, 1935, while President Franklin D. Roosevelt was aboard the Sequoia, the White House announced the dismissal of over 400 cases related to violations of the National Recovery Act (NRA) rules. The very next day, Monday, May 27, the US Supreme Court delivered its ruling on the Schechter Poultry case, declaring President Roosevelt's National Recovery Act unconstitutional. During this period, Charles West arrived at Sequoia by seaplane, presumably to discuss the unfolding NRA issue. As the Sequoia sailed, it passed by the USS Arkansas and USS Wyoming. Both naval ships honored the President with a 21-gun salute. In a related event, Jack Warner, having just arrived in New York City from Europe aboard the White Star Line with his fiancé Ann Alvarado, made his way to Washington, D.C., and then to Annapolis. There, he unexpectedly met director Frank Borzage, who was in the midst of shooting the movie "Shipmates Forever" for Warner Brothers at the Annapolis Naval Academy.