Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before Judge Bohan was another long plea from District Attorney Thomas Dewey demanding a "substantial and punitive sentence" on two counts of stealing from his wife's trust fund and from the portfolio of the New York Yacht Club. As Richard Whitney stood pale before him, Judge Bohan lost no time in showing with which plea his sympathies lay. Said...
...graceful 320-ft. yacht was built at J. & G. Thompson's shipyards, Clydebank, Scotland, painted white, launched as the Mayflower, sold to Manhattan Landlord Ogden Goelet for $1,250,000. Two years later the U. S. Navy bought her for $430,000, ran her as a dispatch & gunboat in Cuban waters. Thereupon the naval auxiliary Mayflower cruised in U. S. waters and abroad, carried such potentates as Edward VII, Kaiser Wilhelm, made history as the signing place of the peace treaty following the Russo-Japanese War. In 1902 she became the Presidential yacht of Roosevelt...
John Pierpont Morgan sued Manhattan's Sound & Harbor Towing Corp. for $3,500. Reason: A scow towed by a tug bumped his 343-foot, turboelectric yacht, Corsair. Banker Morgan accused the tugboat pilot of 1) negligence, 2) attempting to leave the scene of the accident...
...criminal acts; 3) filing of bankruptcy petitions by Partners Mygatt and F. Kingsley Rodewald; 4) a plea of guilty by Richard Whitney to a second indictment for grand larceny, this one brought by New York Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr. for pledging $109,000 worth of New York Yacht Club securities for his own loans; 5) revelation by Richard Whitney that his brother, Morgan-partner George Whitney, loaned him $1,082,000 in cash last November...
Commodore William A. W. Stewart of the New York Yacht Club last week made the following dry announcement: "Mr. DeCoursey Fales has been appointed treasurer of the club to fill the vacancy...