Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gulf hurricane was wrecked the yacht Wild Duck, floating clubhouse of the Sabine Pilots' Association. The Wild Duck was once the pleasure craft of Andrew William Mellon. She carried Mr. & Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. on their honeymoon. In the Kiel Canal she had as guest Wilhelm II. For a time she was chartered by Harry Kendall Thaw, whose guests were Evelyn Nesbit and William Travers Jerome. In the Mexican Revolution of 1910 she evacuated 200 Americans from Vera Cruz, was hit by shellfire...
...Frederick H. Prince's America's Cup sloop Weetamoe, sailed by Harold S. Vanderbilt: the fourth day's run of the New York Yacht Club's annual cruise; by 8 min. (corrected time), against Gerard M. Lambert's Vanitie, re-rigged this year and sailed by Secretary of the Navy Adams; at Mattapoisett, Mass...
...first day's yacht-racing, Gilbert Gray of New Orleans in his Jupiter led a fleet of seven star-class sloops twice-around a six-mile triangle...
...about the corridors and offices of the Dwight Building that its interior seems more densely populated and lively than that of most real edifices of comparable size. Typical shot: Banker Dwight guzzling champagne with his secretary's stenographer while artfully persuading her to take a trip on his yacht...
...Washington Kozminski of the French Line, and set himself up in Coblenz as a money changer to confused U. S. soldiers in the Army of Occupation. Later he moved to Paris, opened a Travelers Bank a few doors from Morgan et Cie. By 1928 Banker Neidecker had bought a yacht, put his bank in larger quarters in the Rue de la Paix, where junketing U. S. citizens liked to watch quotations from the New York Stock exchange click up on his big board. For the investment business Banker Neidecker founded Neidecker et Cie. with branches at Geneva, Brussels, London, Buenos...