Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swell fellow." He had a fine seashore house on nearby Warwick Neck, a spacious Dutch Colonial mansion with weather-stained shingles and white columns only a field away from the estate of Rhode Island's rich U. S. Senator Peter Goelet Gerry. Also nearby was the swank yacht-going Warwick Country Club, to which belong John D. Rockefeller Jr., Harold S. Vanderbilt, many another bigwig. Senator Gerry and club members often graced Neighbor Rettich's lawn parties with their presence...
When customs agents boarded Bootlegger Carl Rettich's yacht Prudence in Boston harbor three years ago. they searched in vain for contraband until one chanced to unscrew an electric light bulb. At once panels slid back, revealing thousands of dollars worth of liquor. In Rettich's Warwick house the raiders scraped some whitewash off a brick pillar in the cellar, found and turned a key. A great slab of concrete rose quietly out of the floor, opening the way to a subcellar. Steps led from the subcellar to a huge vault in which were found three machine guns...
...Park, where they were raised. Their father who founded the company in 1889 had the distinction of having once cornered the Spanish peanut market and annoyed his less hearty neighbors by keeping a herd of cows on his broad lawns. In winter the Brothers Mills dispatch their jointly-owned yacht Minoco (after their company; to Florida where they continue their fun-making while fishing. Once they made a composite photograph, showing the heads of the four brothers on bodies of more fortunate fishermen...
Then & there Frank Parish and his cronies began selling stock, millions of dollars worth, which was to make everybody rich. It made Frank Parish rich enough to buy the old Presidential yacht Mayflower for $16,000. The pipe line crawled northward out of Texas, headed for the Kansas City territory controlled by goateed, alert Henry Doherty. What happened after that and why, was the subject of a four-week criminal trial concluded last week in Chicago's Federal Courts. There Frank Parish and an associate were on trial for using the mails to defraud in selling Missouri-Kansas stock...
Best Reporting of the year, the judges found, was done by a youthful sports writer on the New York Herald Tribune, William Howland Taylor. To him went $1,000 for his stories of the America's Cup Races: the claim of foul by the British yacht Endeavour, the victory won by Harold Vanderbilt's Rainbow. A yachtsman, William Taylor helped organize the Frostbite Yacht Club which sails dinghies ia winter...