Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five pounds lighter from his jaunt afield to Arkansas, Texas, Indiana (TIME, June 22), Franklin Roosevelt settled down last week to the not-so-arduous business of getting rid of Congress. Canceling his trip to the Yale-Harvard boat races, also his week-end yacht cruise, he swept his signature across scores of bills, none of which seemed to cause him great concern. Nor did he bother to put positive pressure on Congress to block or save any important measure. Thus he had time to attend to several other matters...
...Whim, Not only the new Lifeline of Empire preoccupied Sir Samuel Hoare last week. Adolf Hitler was off on his white yacht The Whim to secret German Navy maneuvers in the North Sea, "and in Danish waters!" screamed indignant Danish editors. It was by this sort of thing that Der Kaiser in the fateful days before 1914 made his uncle King Edward VII and eventually all Britain so nervous...
When the royal yacht Dannebrog put in at Reykjavik, Iceland's metropolis, it flew not the white-crossed red flag of Denmark but Iceland's own royal flag of red, white & blue. This time King Christian had made a Slesvig - Holsten -Sonderborg -Glikksborg family party of it, bringing his retiring German Queen Alexandrine, his second son Prince Knud and Knud's cousin-wife Princess Caroline Mathilde. Chief greeter was Iceland's 35-year-old Premier Hermann Jonasson, who led his Icelandic sovereign to a round of dinners, automobile trips, state council meetings and the signing...
Dutchess County farmers, watching from the plateau on the East side of the river, saw Navy jump off to a quick start, then yield the lead to California. Urchins in rowboats at the two-mile mark saw Navy and California battling for the lead with Columbia third. The yacht flotilla at the finish shrieked wildly as the first shell slid across the line. It was Washington's- whose smart Coxswain Bob Moch had timed a long sprint perfectly through the last mile-with California a length and a half behind, Navy third, and a boatload of Columbia sophomores fourth...
...youthful commander of a small sailing yacht describes his adventures on a six-months voyage from Greece to Florida...