Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collection of various objects found at the scene of a murder, together with telegrams, memoranda, stenographic reports of interviews with suspects, bound together in a bulky loose-leaf binding. First exhibit is a telegram from Carlton Rocksavage to the police of Miami, Fla., announcing the suicide on his yacht of Bolitho Blane. Next is a police memo ordering Officer Keys Kettering to investigate. Most of the subsequent exhibits are Kettering's reports, but there are also police files on the individuals involved, photographs of the scene of the crime and of the passengers on the yacht, letters found...
Novel at least in the manner of its telling, File on Bolitho Blane gets under way slowly as Kettering's reports first establish that almost everybody on board the yacht had some good reason for wanting Blane killed. The cast of characters includes two rival financiers, a count, a bishop, a British philanthropist, a Japanese promoter, a secretary, two young ladies, and the evidence apparently involves them all impartially. The solution of the mystery-by a detective on shore from the same evidence that is made available to the reader-is sealed in the back of each volume...
Candidate Brucker harped on Senator Couzens' defection so much that he was nicknamed "The Toy Hoover." But even these harpings did not seem to damage the Couzens popularity in Michigan at first. Instead of grubbing for renomination in the primary campaign, the Senator rented a yacht, disdainfully went off fishing on the Great Lakes. His cause was still far from lost when he returned to shore last month. Then, against the advice of friends, he boldly announced: "Believing as I do that the most important matter confronting the nation is the re-election of President Roosevelt, I intend...
...Conte di Savoia dropped anchor and ravening reporters in their cutter drew along the starboard side, away from the port side slipped the 75-foot Long Island commuter yacht Nepenthe carrying the Duchess of Toledo and personal maid. The 1,000 h. p. engines of the commuter were just turning over but ready to open up with a roar should reporters give chase. Thus neatly great Victoria's granddaughter slipped away, with the U. S. State Department honoring her Queen's prerogative to travel without a passport, and the U. S. Treasury Department speeding through the Customs...
...Miss. A novice sailor, Louisiana's Leche selected Commodore Garner N. Tullis of the Southern Yacht Club to be his skipper. Mississippi's White, however, had no trouble winning the race. Said the Governor of Louisiana to the Governor of Mississippi: "Governor, you're a damn fine sailor...