Word: smyrna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...active life Samuel Insull never took a regular vacation. His periods of relaxation came at sea, usually two or three times a year, crossing the ocean on business. On the water his time was spent sunning himself on deck, talking to fellow passengers. The voyage which he began at Smyrna in mid-April was such a trip except that he traveled on a smaller, slower ship, in titular custody of a young Third Secretary of Embassy and watched over by traveling correspondents. While the ship was at Casablanca he suffered a brief heart attack, but otherwise his health was good...
Brutally last week Dictator Kemal snubbed the useless loyalty of Turkey's eunuchs. An admirer of Italian Fascism, he had borrowed Mussolini's bachelor tax idea. But when he set out to test it in the district of Smyrna, he chose to forget about Turkey's unique variety of bachelor, unknown in Italy. To the Turkish tax collectors, the eunuchs were neither women nor married men; hence, they were bachelors liable to the tax. Other men could escape the levy by means of a hasty marriage to one of Turkey's still ample supply of women...
...White Star liners end in ic and Cunarders in ia, so ships of the American Export Lines begin in Ex (Executive, Exochorda, Excalibur). Last week one of them sloshed her way up to Smyrna. The Exilona was going to bring an ex-tycoon home from exile: the U. S. Government had won its long battle to bring Samuel Insull back for trial...
...small steamer Adana and waved good-by to his lawyers on the wharf, reassuring them that they would be paid for their services. During the night the steamer crossed the Sea of Marmora to the Asiatic port of Panderma where, still guarded by six Turks, he entrained for Smyrna...
...warm, exciting routine of swimming and horse-racing, parties and roulette which constitute social life on the east coast of Florida, outboard motorboat racing this winter assumed an international air. After the first series of races at New Smyrna (TIME, March 12), there began a round of entertaining at Palm Beach. John Sanford gave a party for the Italian drivers-Prince Carlo Maurizio Ruspoli, Count Theo Rossi de Montelera, Antonio Becchi. The French drivers- Publisher Jean Dupuy, Baron Alain de Rothschild, Marquis Gonzalo de la Gan-dara-had a tea given them by Mrs. Frederick E. Guest. Last week...