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John Pierpont Morgan, yachtsman, has made his last voyage on his huge, black-hulled Corsair. Last week the Corsair beat United Cigar Store Tycoon George J. Whalen's Warrior across the Atlantic. In Manhattan the Corsair's officers announced that she would be turned over to the U. S. Geodetic Survey. Mr. Morgan will not stop yachting. A two-million-dollar successor to the Corsair is being built in Bath...
...Federal grand jury in Los Angeles, charged with trying to defraud the U. S. of $175,967.65 in income taxes. He, performing in Minneapolis, said time would prove him innocent.-ED. Brent & Canterbury Sirs: Seeing in TIME that the Archbishop of Canterbury was yachting on the luxurious Corsair with Multi-Millionaire Morgan, reminded me of the late Bishop Brent, of New York State, and a different scene. I was with Major General Henry C. Corbin on the Benguet road going from Baguio to Manila in an army (Doherty) wagon. At noon we outspanned for luncheon. Smoking in the shade after...
John Pierpont Morgan returned to Paris and the Second Dawes committee last week, having shaken off a cold by cruising the Adriatic in his black yacht Corsair with the Archbishop of Canterbury (TIME, April...
Immediately churchly rumormongers reported that the Pope had spoken to Mussolini, that he had spoken to England, and that an English potentate had "suggested" that the Corsair cancel its pilgrimage. The Pope, said rumormongers, did not want too great a rapprochement between Anglican and Orthodox Churches, preferring to see Jerusalem's present religious balance kept intact...
...denial of the rumors then came the Archbishop. He telegraphed from the Corsair, now a cynosure indeed, that his trip had been canceled because Mr. Morgan, delayed in Paris by Reparations (see p. 21) could not join the party. All thoughts then turned toward Rome. But from the Vatican, which can be so secretive as to conceal whether there even exists a secret, issued no statement...