Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jones. A prominent member of the coal business nowadays is "Tad" Jones. The public knows him better as the old-time coach of Yale football teams. Mr. Jones used to welcome to Yale physiques like coal heavers. Now he employs physiques like that professionally, and for his private yacht, the T. A. D. Jones, sturdy collier. Last week, off the New Jersey coast, the T. A. D. Jones was fired on, stopped by the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Seneca...
...dusk one day last month. A trim little 30-foot cabin sportabout nosed out of the Kill van Kull, turned north across the Upper Bay. Aboard were Manhattan Broker Stuyvesant Fish, owner; Mrs. Fish; their two sons, and Captain A. Phillip Larsen. Mr. Fish was bringing his new yacht, the Restless, up from its builders, American Car and Foundry Co. at Wilmington, Del. From the Brooklyn shore a U. S. patrol boat slid out in pursuit of the Restless. Hard by the Statue of Liberty, the U. S. craft fired twice on the Fish boat. Capt. Larsen hove to. From...
Eagles that flew high over the warm bright Mediterranean last week could have espied a slim black object floating on the water beneath them. On closer scrutiny they might have noticed that it was not so slim, that it was a black, ochre-funneled yacht named the Corsair. And if they followed it they would have noticed that the yacht of J. Pierpont Morgan seemed to have no set destination, that it was just "cruising" in the Mediterranean...
Eagle-eyed hotel proprietors in newly popularized Antibes and Juan-les-Pins watched the Morgan yacht, too, for Mor gan yachts are newsworthy and news may be made into publicity for budding resorts. And though yachts seldom-have any religious significance, churchmen throughout the world wondered about the Morgan yacht. For on it was Cosmo Gordon Lang, bachelor Archbishop of Canter bury, and where the Archbishop went was important...
Since England's stern Reformation no English primate has ever set foot in Jerusalem.* A month ago the Archbishop an nounced that the Morgan yacht would take him to the Holy Land (TIME, March 25). In Palestine, the patriarchs of the Greek and Armenian Orthodox Churches announced that they would jubilantly wel come their British brother. Obviously in these celebrations the Roman Catholic Church would take no part, for the Pope, unlike the Orthodox patriarchs, does net recognize Anglican dignitaries...