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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stopped, together with the Vice that was reported in conjunction. A Manhattan newspaper (Evening Post) soon reported more Gambling and Vice in another New York county (Suffolk). It described a discreet, highly expensive casino on an island near Montauk Point, L.I. The games were said to be "fourth largest in the U.S.," smaller only than the games at three unnamed places in Florida. The casino, named the Montauk Island Club and operated by the hotel syndicate which is glorifying Long Island's cool tip, promptly closed its doors, much to the regret of summer-bored Wealth and Fashion...
Philip A. S. Franklin, president of the International Mercantile Marine Co., went to a ship, the Virginia (Panama Pacific Line), the largest steamer ever built in the U. S. (thirtyfour thousand tons). He went to look, not to ride; the vessel will not operate until December...
Capt. William Prothero of the Scythia has a new job. In September he will leave his ship, become relief captain of the three largest Cunarders, Berengaria, Aquitania & Mauretania. The Cunard program calls for heavy duty service with these vessels; they turn around quickly in New York; there has been scarcely any rest period between voyages for their burdened, responsible skippers. Capts. Charles Smith and W. R. D. Irvine broke down on the Berengaria; Captain Sir James Charles recently died on the Aquitania. Hereafter their regular captains will take them for three round trips and then be relieved by Capt. Prothero...
...Seventy years ago [when the orator was ten] the then young North German Lloyd launched its first vessel for trans-Atlantic service. It gave the craft the name of Bremen. . . " Now it is our wish to give this newest and largest vessel of Germany's revived fleet to its elements. ... I christen thee Bremen...
...Naturally, the ramifications of the world's largest industry, namely, petroleum, in which all three of us are interested, affords and will always afford a wide field for conversation...