Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Col. Henry Breckinridge, friend and legal adviser of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, left his client's side for the first time in more than two months, flew to the Kentucky Derby. John Hughes Curtis, Norfolk, Va. boat builder, vanished on another of his mysterious yacht cruises...
Lieutenant Commander Glutting came to Harvard in the Spring of 1930, and has had charge of instruction in Gunnery. Formerly he was Gunnery officer on the battleship Florida, and between 1924 and 1926 was naval aide to President Coolidge and was attached to the Presidential yacht Mayflower. He commanded the submarine R-4 after the War, and later was given command of one of the S-type submarines...
Died, Edward Taylor Scott, 48, able editor of the Manchester Guardian, son of its late, great Editor Charles Prestwich Scott (TIME, Jan. 11), drowned after a dinghy, in which he was rowing to his yacht, capsized; in Lake Windermere, Westmorland, England. His 16-year-old son was rescued...
...Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. over a nation-wide hookup. They broadcast for Buick too, over a midwestern hookup. With a substantial Coca-Cola contract be sides, James Melton will make an easy $100,000 this year. It enables him to live in an expensive penthouse apartment, keep a sailing yacht on the Hudson...
...with the criminals and their subsequent collapse. Early last week he and his lawyer. Col. Henry Breckinridge, onetime Assistant Secretary of War, hopped over the back fence at Newark Airport, flew away in a borrowed airplane and were reported some time later inquiring on Cuttyhunk Island. Mass, for a yacht known as the Sally or the Nellie. Next day they borrowed another plane, made a similar flight over the same area. It was 48 hours after these trips that the Treasury Department was asked to trace the ransom money...