Word: southampton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House Naval Affairs Committee. Congressman Britten summers at Montauk. He was there to welcome the fleet. So was his good friend Carl Graham Fisher, board chairman of Montauk Beach Development Corp. Mr. Britten had outlined a gay, busy week for the Navy. The hostesses of swank East Hampton and Southampton nearby would entertain the officers at many a bright party. For the men there would be a carnival at more distant Patchogue, where they could race bicycles, pitch horseshoes, swim, or dance in the street. There would be tennis, golf, swimming, baseball; the Gold Cup race for speedboats, and, dear...
...national championship, he is likely to win it, likely to replace Wimbledon Champion (by default) Wood on next year's Davis Cup team. Doeg, stung by his third tournament defeat this season, changed his plans for this week, entered the Meadow Club's invitation tournament at Southampton...
...Most renowned U. S. banker J. Pierpont Morgan steamed into Southampton water last week on his yacht Corsair after a record Atlantic crossing (7 days, 7 hr.), the Corsair's second this year. He laughed when asked if he had hurried to participate in the London Conference, said he would spend a few weeks at Wall Hall, his Hertfordshire estate, shoot a few grouse in Scotland. In 1926 a Morgan loan helped save the French franc from collapsing. In 1925 a Morgan bond issue of $100,000,000 helped pull Italy from grave financial difficulties. Four months...
John Barry Ryan, son-in-law of Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, called Vice President Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones of Curtiss-Wright Corp. on the telephone at 3:30 a. m. Mr. Ryan said he wanted Mr. Jones to fly to Southampton and to Boston with some books that morning. Mr. Jones agreed and four hours later alighted at Piping Rock Country Club where Mr. Ryan handed him books addressed to Mrs. Ryan, to Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin, Cardinal O'Connell and Eleonora Sears. The books were copies of Verses by Barry Vail. "Barry Vail" is John Barry Ryan. Sample...
Arrived off the Isle of Wight, the Hamburg transhipped the German Delegation onto the British destroyer Winchester which brought them with all honor to Southampton-honor particularly precious to a war-defeated nation...