Word: aloha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just received $25,000,000 by his father's will. Instead of diversifying his investment as he was advised, he began to concentrate in railroad securities. By 1926 he had a beard like a buffalo, owned the world's largest square-rigged yacht (the 675-ton Aloha), was Board Chairman of the big Western Pacific, controlled 40,000 miles of railroad trackage-a full seventh of the U. S. total-most of it in the Northwest, stamping ground of the late great Railroad Builder James Jerome Hill, whom he had known and idolized. By 1931 he had welded...
...family home was completely destroyed in the fire of 1906 and the only home I had left was my good sloop, Aloha. The problem we faced during those terrible days was getting proper food and, even though there was abundance of food being rushed into the city, there was no adequate means of obtaining it and no means at all of proper distribution. Therefore, I used the Aloha for what I called...
...band played the "Star Spangled Banner," a few strains from "Aloha Oe," some of "Auld Lang Syne." Franklin Roosevelt took off his Panama to the officers and men of the U. S. S. Houston as he left the cruiser that had been his home for 33 days, 12,000 miles. On the Portland dock welcoming crowds saw him give a confident toss of the head, watched his well-tanned face glow with self-assured smiles. A few drops of rain fell from a threatening sky upon him in his open...
...athletic import of the race declined, its social prestige increased. Last week more than half of the commissioned yachts in Eastern waters were crowded into the mouth of the Thames. Biggest were boats like Carl Tucker's Migrant (661 tons), Arthur Curtiss James's Aloha (659 tons), Hiram Edward Manville's Hi-Esmaro (1,333 tons). J. P. Morgan's Corsair (2,181 tons), like Gerard B. Lambert's three-masted schooner Atlantic (303 tons), stayed in the harbor below the bridge. Her Harvard-alumnus owner, wearing an old panama with a blue ribbon, bought...
...interned at Atlanta during the War on suspicion of being a spy, had made a business of organizing bizarre junkets, soliciting junketeers through newspapers. He had been married three times. Only one bulkhead separated the dead man from his two sleeping children, Valerio, 7, and Nile, 6. His wife Aloha, young and comely, was reported in Hollywood at the time of shooting...