Word: newport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looked in 1931 like a better prospect than Vines. This year he started so erratically that he was automatically left off the Davis Cup team, revenged himself by winning five U. S. tournaments in a row, roundly beating Vines in the last big invitation tournament of the year, at Newport...
Francis Xavier Shields, No. 5 ranking U. S. tennist: a match from National Champion Ellsworth Vines, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4, in the semi-finals of the Newport (R. I.) Casino Cup tournament, which Shields then won from Wilmer Allison, No. 2 in the rankings...
...raced back to Washington to fight for his old position, decided to resign instead. He bitterly complained of Mrs. Rumsey's amateur methods and personnel, obliquely flayed the appointment of Mrs. Johnson to handle consumers' grievances. Meanwhile Mrs. Rumsey had suffered a nervous collapse, gone off to Newport to recover...
...London Naval Treaty. Of the 21 ships contracted for, 16 would be constructed out of the $238,000,000 cash allotment to the Navy from the Public Works Fund, five out of regular annual appropriations. Total expenditures for fiscal 1934 were estimated at $86,000,000. Contracts awarded: To Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.-two 20,000-ton aircraft carriers at $19,000,000 each. To Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.-one 10,000-ton cruiser with 8-in. guns at $11,720,000; four 1,850-ton destroyers at $3,896,000 each. To New York Shipbuilding Co. of which...
...water as at work. Consequently the Dorade, smallest of the fleet of well-known ocean-going yachts, has functioned so efficiently that last week's statement by the skipper of the Flame amounts almost to a rule of ocean sailing. In 1931 the Stephens brothers won the Newport-to-Plymouth trans-atlantic race in 17 days, then won the biannual Fastnet race for the first time. Last year Dorade was first in her class in the New London-to-Bermuda run. This spring, with a crew of five intruding famed Sherman Hoyt, who has navigated the Atlantic on everything...