Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Month ago in Manhattan, idle seamen complained to the municipal employment bureau that certain U. S. yacht owners were importing foreign seamen under bond to run their boats, instead of employing U. S. hands. The bureau took the names of the yachtsmen complained against, sent them to Secretary of Labor Doak. Last week in Manhattan the sport of tycoons was again mentioned in connection with unemployment. Explained Broker Edward F. Button, owner of Hussar...
...believe the newspapers could create the right sort of sentiment so that nearly every yacht would be placed in commission this year, thus creating more work all around. We would not have sailors looking for work, there would be more paint, oil and gasoline, food and other ship's supplies purchased. If yachtsmen could only be assured that it is their duty at this time to keep their yachts in commission, it would help the general situation which all of us are trying to relieve...
...Hutton, like many another U. S. millionaire, has his pleasure craft built abroad. Mr. Hutton's Hussar I, now in use, was built at Kiel in 1923. Now abuilding, also at Kiel, is Hussar II. It will cost $1,250,000. Since labor is the largest cost in yacht building (80%), and since German shipyard labor costs 22? an hour-48? less than the U. S. scale- Mr. Hutton will save himself $500,000 by having his boat constructed abroad. From this saving, however, must be deducted a 30% import duty ($375,000 on Hussar II) in effect since...
...after his return, the Rev. Shedden resigned as Bishop. The yacht disaster, he said, merely clinched an earlier determination to quit because, as he had told his good friend the Archbishop of Canterbury the diocese needed a change some time and he had done as much good as possible. Next week he will sail for England where, observers guessed, he will be rewarded with a diocese...
...Manhattan to do the unveiling while neighbors recalled anecdotes about the pale, thin-faced man with the scraggly hair. Composer Nevin was only 38 when he died. He left Manhattan because of an acute nervous condition, went to New Haven to be near his son Paul (now in the yacht business), then a student at a nearby military academy. One neighbor, a Flora Calhoun, recalled that as he sat at the piano he always kept a flower, usually a single narcissus, before him. "Narcissus" is the name of Nevin's most popular piano composition...