Word: harmsworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harmsworth, Hearst, and the News...
...stewards lugged the plaque back to the clubhouse, and for all the thousands of words which have been printed about it before and since, relatively few people know what the much disputed Harmsworth Trophy looks like...
...decline. Understandable is the anxiety which many a Midwesterner feels over the spread of encephalitis. Cause and cure of the disease are still unknown. The Public Health Service has begun field work at Independence, Mo., where 50 cases of encephalitis were last fortnight reported. -ED. "Cheap Bronze Plaque" Sirs: -Harmsworth Cup. . . . There is always one serious mishap in the Harmsworth Cup races. . . ." (TIME, Sept. 11). Let TIME'S sport reviewer note on his diary for September next year that the British International Trophy for Motorboats is commonly known as the Harmsworth Trophy, not Harmsworth Cup. The emblem of speed...
...British International Trophy for Motor Boats was presented by the late Sir Alfred Harmsworth to the Royal Motor Yacht Club of England, which put it up for competition in 1903. Approximate cost: ?1,000. It is 27¼ by 125 in., represents two displacement power boats (not one) rounding a can buoy in a rough sea. During the War the base was damaged in London. It now rests on a base made in 1928 from the timbers of Miss America I, with which Gar Wood returned the trophy...
...weeks ago Esmond Harmsworth (of the Mail) cabled Lord Beaverbrook, then returning from Africa, that the battle of gifts had broken all bounds of sanity; the Mail would welcome peace negotiations. Lord Beaverbrook promptly cabled one of his Express managers to represent him. The conferences started hopefully. The Herald proposed a modification of the free gift schemes, the Express and Mail assented. But not Sir Walter Layton of the News-Chronicle, tag-ender of the fight. He would accept no truce that did not end the gift business completely. The war went on again. Next day the Mail offered twelve...