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Almost as foggy as Narragansett Bay fortnight ago when Coast Guard launch 290 sprayed the Black Duck with machine gun fire, killing three of her four occupants, were the facts of this latest episode in Federal liquor suppression. Agreed: the Black Duck was a rumrunner with 500 cases aboard; her stern was peppered with bullets from C. G. 290. Coast Guard claim: a siren first warned the Black Duck to stop; she tried to escape; a one-pound shot failed to halt her; machine gun fire was a last resort; the Black Duck either veered her course or rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Black Duck Aftermath | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

...taking things out of his desk at the Capitol in Washington, he proceeded to Providence, R. I., to stay with his darkly handsome daughter, Mrs. Leona Curtis Knight. Mrs. Knight's father-in-law, C. Prescott Knight, took the Nominee out on his yacht to watch sailing races in Narragansett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Curtis Week | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...Commandant of the Narragansett Bay Naval Station and President of the Naval War College, when he was sent abroad with the rank of Vice Admiral, commanding the U.S. Naval forces in European waters. He held that post throughout the War, and for a time was in command of all the Allied vessels in the Irish Sea. His skill and tact were admired by the Allies. Late in 1918 he was given the temporary rank of Admiral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Air Conclusion | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

...second in the last of six matches she had contested with Star Class boats of seven other fleets. This performance brought Little Bear's point total to 44, made her winner of the International Star Class championship trophy which she was defending for her fleet. Rhody, of the Narragansett Bay Fleet, placed second with 42 points. ¶Off Oyster Bay, L. I., a strong northwest breeze flapped the pennants and bunting of many anchored yachts, bellied the canvas of eight British and American six-metre craft competing for the International six-metre Challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yachts | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

Married. Ogden L. Mills, 40, U. S. Congressman and Manhattan clubman, to Mrs. Dorothy Randolph Fell; at Narragansett Pier, R. I. His divorced wife, daughter of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, is now the wife of Sir Paul Dukes, of London. Mrs. Fell last year divorced John R. Fell, of Philadelphia, charging drunkenness. Mr. Mills is the grandson of Darius Ogden Mills, '49er...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 15, 1924 | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

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