Word: tredegar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...palatial 3O4-ft. steam yacht Liberty was built in 1908 by the late eccentric Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who was such a slave-driver that his retinue of male secretaries called their floating home the Liberty, Ha Ha. The late Courtenay Charles Evan Morgan Viscount Tredegar, wealthy coal man, bought the yacht from Pulitzer, made it a navigating hospital. The third owner, the late Fanny Lucy Radmall Lady Houston, wife of the Houston shiplines director, hung a huge electric sign, DOWN WITH MACDONALD THE TRAITOR, in the rigging, sailed the English coast. Last week the old Liberty was sold for scrap...