Word: smyrna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smyrna, Fla. on the shiny black surface of Indian River, a dozen tiny boats, responsive as walnut-shells, noisy as airplanes, wheeled, bounced and scudded around a ten-mile boomerang-shaped course. They were Class-X outboard motorboats, competing in the first international outboard races ever held...
...John Wanamaker took their boats to the regatta at Lake Garda, Italy last summer, they had so much fun that they asked the European drivers to compete in the U. S., got Florida yacht clubs and hotelmen to put up $15,000 for expenses & prizes. On hand at New Smyrna were not all the best pilots in Europe where outboard racing is a more socialite pastime than in the U. S. There were enough, however, to make the series, after next summer's Gold Cup races, the most important U. S. motorboat contest of the year. Parisian Publisher Jean...
...Milwaukee, the Mayor of Houston, the Mayor of Louisville, a vice president of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, a professor from Princeton, a professor from Michigan, a professor from Northwestern, the Director of Finance of Dayton, the State Controller of New York, the City Auditor of New Smyrna, Fla.-such men. 75 of them, last week trooped down Chicago's sweltering Midway to Judson Court at the University of Chicago. There they held a Conference on Municipal Finance, to work out reconstruction measures for bankrupt U. S. cities...
...Andre, a lesser Ziegfeld of Paris, happened to share her compartment. That was how it all started. Evangeline went to Deauville with Andre, to Montparnasse with Alexei, with Heinz to the Nudist colony at Himmelheim, with Count Ferdinand to Venice. Sold to Tycoon Constantine, she yachted comfortably to Smyrna just in time to meet the pillaging Turkish army. It looked then as if she might have to spend the rest of her life in a harem, but boredom, not shame, helped her to escape, with the help of a pure-minded U. S. sanitary engineer. Finally just a year late...
William Richardson, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Jullen Ripley, Jr., Oyster Bay, New York, C. R. Rubel, New York City, P. L. Rusden, Somerville, Bryan Rust, Purcellville Virginia, R. DeW. Scott, Montreal, Canada, Muzafer Sherif, Smyrna, Turkey, H. A. Smith, North Adams, Ellis Spear, 3rd, Newton Centre, H. C. Spencer, DeKalb, Illinois, S. R. Sternthal, New York City, D. F. Strong, Winsted, Connecticut, Chi-Tung Tseng, Washington, D. C., Yeh Chih Yang Washington...