Word: covely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Banker John Pierpont Morgan added to his Glen Cove (L. I.) estate by buying for $650,000 "Rattling Springs," the 65-acre estate of the late Percy Chubb, which adjoins that of his son. Junius. "Rattling Springs" includes a pond which Mr. Morgan may convert into a yacht basin...
Weetamoe beat Vanitie and Resolute on the first day's run from Brenton's Cove Light Ship to West Chop on Martha's Vineyard. Andiamo beat the other M-boats, when Prestige, after leading half the way, dropped back to finish last in her class. The second day was so foggy the race committee considered calling off the longest leg of the cruise, 73 miles around Cape Cod to Provincetown. When the fog finally lifted, there was almost no wind; the boats drifted along the rough elbow of the Cape till dark. Word came that Michabo...
...Bisley Camp, England, 3,927 to 3,925 ¶Eleanor Holm, slim, blonde-haired swimming champion: a new world's record (4 min., 47 sec.) for the 300 metres back stroke, surpassing her own previous record of 4 min., 49 2/5 sec.; at Glen Cove...
...skipper, "Cupid" mate; Kent was cook and navigator. They sailed from Baddeck, Nova Scotia, June 17, made the coast of Greenland July 15. Twice on the way they were nearly wrecked. Allen was a good sailor, says Kent, but his judgment was poor. When they anchored in a little cove 40 miles from Godthaab, their destination, they thought their troubles were over; but that night a storm hit them, shifted their moorings, pounded the Direction against the rocks (TIME, July 29, 1929). They got ashore without trouble, saved some of their belongings, with mixed feelings watched the Direction sink. Next...
...Rogers Maxwell, Nannie Inman Brokaw, and 25 other rich Long Islanders obtained orders requiring Tax Commissioner John F. Neafsey to show cause why they should not get their taxes lowered in Nassau and Kings counties. Last year John Pierpont Morgan obtained a $32,000 tax reduction on his Glen Cove properties. Declared Commis sioner Neafsey: "[this fight] to prevent the millionaires, who own two-thirds of the town^from putting the burden of tax ation on the small property owners . . . [will be carried] to the highest court of the land...