Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sewanna's wake trailed the destroyer Hopkins, for Secret Service and wireless men; the Presidential yacht Potomac, for secretaries, emergencies and fishing jaunts; the schooner Liberty, for newshawks. First day's run brought the President to Bucks Harbor, off South Brooksville, Me. Next noon he put in at Mount Desert Island's Seal Cove for a visit from Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, wife, son and three daughters. Dressed in old pants, blue sweater and floppy white hat, Franklin Roosevelt received them with a day's growth of stubble on his chin, kept the Admiral...
...progress last week on Lake Michigan was the 29th running of the longest fresh-water yacht race in the world, the Chicago Yacht Club's famed Mackinac Race from Chicago up Lake Michigan, through hazardous Mackinac Straits to Mackinac Island. Sailing the 331-mile course and due to finish this week was the largest (42) fleet of yachts ever to participate. On hand to greet the winner were Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow and Harry M. Daugherty...
...progress last week on the Atlantic was the first ocean yacht race from Hamilton. Bermuda, to Cuxhaven, Germany. Sailing the 3,000-mile course and expected to finish this week were twelve little boats, seven from Germany, two from the U. S.. one each from The Netherlands, Sweden, the Free City of Danzig...
...Britannia, the greatest sailing yacht of the British Royal Family, was decked with blossoms, towed out into the Channel at night to foil photographers and sunk last week by order of King Edward VIII...
...soiled mackintosh, the man with the deep-set evil eyes and the complexion of a vampire? To some of these questions the reader can soon supply the answer. Ordino's club was a blind for selling drugs. Ordino was in cahoots with Lady Judith and Sir Gregory, whose yacht-cruises were not innocent pleasure trips but drug-buying expeditions to the Orient. This nefarious trade paid the three partners so well that they were thinking of retiring after a few more hauls. Then Scotland Yard began to close in on them. But the criminals might have escaped...