Word: corsairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Battle Plane Prejudice. To the desk of Comrade Litvinov in the Kremlin came intelligence, last week, that a ship had just cleared from New York, bearing to the Chinese Government the second consignment of a $1,000,000 order for battle planes of the Vought Corsair type used by the U. S. Navy, built at Long Island City. Soon these planes might be bombing Soviet villages near the Sino-Russian frontier. Naturally the U. S. State Department was not responsible for the shipment, but it may have prejudiced Comrade Litvinov as he ruffled his copy of Statesman Stimson...
...bridge of his big white steam yacht Nourmahal and gave a signal. A gun boomed. Moorings were slipped and out sailed the fleet in the wake of Commodore William Vincent Astor. Among many another power craft that churned along with the fleet was John Pierpont Morgan's rakish black Corsair steaming near the Nourmahal as committee boat...
...recently arrived on the Mauretania (TIME, June 17) he made no objections to newsphotographers. One camera caught him munching a bun. Banker Morgan, eschewing academic robes or class reunion costume, wore a black cutaway, grey trousers, panama hat. He left early to board his huge black yacht, the Corsair, to go and inspect his new 343-foot yacht, abuilding at Bath, Maine...
...handsome Banker Morgan had shifted to a more advantageous position on the deck. They praised the amiable Morgan disposition. They described the Morgan apparel (grey lounge suit, grey fedora). Finally, they related the general Morgan conversation, which was not on Reparations, but on his Mediterranean cruise aboard his yacht Corsair. Of his yachting guest, Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, Banker Morgan told the newsmen...
Meanwhile the Crimson oarsmen have been royally entertained in their leisure moments upon the "Corsair" the palatial yacht of J. P. Morgan, who has for many years taken a few weeks at New London to provide rest and entertainment for the oarsmen. The crew squad will take an extended trip on the "Corsair" tomorrow...