Word: harold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vanitie, Resolute's rival in the 1920 trials. There were half a dozen Class M sloops-Walter Keith Shaw's Andiamo, sluggish in races the week before the cruise till her captain removed from her keel 100 ft. of lobster line and two lobster pots; Harold Vanderbilt's Prestige, Floyd Leslie Carlisle's Avatar, and Commodore of the New York Yacht Club Winthrop Williams Aldrich's Valiant, all with shiny new duralumin masts; and Chandler Hovey's wooden-masted Istalena.* There were four 40-footers, five 10-metre boats, two Seawanhaka schooners...
When a man is elected Rear-Commodore of the New York Yacht Club, it is clear that, in the normal course of events, he will hold the office for three years, then become successively Vice-Commodore and Commodore. Commodore Aldrich succeeds Vincent Astor (who succeeded Harold Sterling ["Mike''] Vanderbilt) and will probably be succeeded, year after next, by Junius Spencer Morgan Jr. His fellow members have been pleased and amused by the crisp, business-like manner in which Commodore Aldrich conducts even such informal meetings as last fortnight's aboard the Viking...
...boat, searching for a mysterious ship that was to carry them on to Havana. They never found it. After hours upon hours of tumbling about in a heavy fog, the retching Cubans cried that if they must die, they wanted to die on land. Two days later the schooner Harold put in loaded to the gunwales with more seasick conspirators, 52 of them this time, 39 Cubans, the rest Negro, Chinese, Mexican. Only one was a U. S. citizen. They were hiding under nets and in the lifeboats but to all questions they insisted that they had just been...
...July 1, 1927 Col. Henry Aaron Guinzburg, Jewish rubber manufacturer and philanthropist, gave his son Harold a $71,368 house as a wedding present. On Nov. 16, 1928 Col. Guinzburg died. The Government, contending that the gift was made in expectation of death to evade the inheritance tax, assessed the Guinzburg estate an extra $2,000. Col. Guinzburg's lawyer son-in-law James Marshall, son of the late great Louis Marshall, brought what the U. S. accepted as a test suit...
London Correspondent Harold E. Scarborough of the New York Herald Tribune cabled last week...