Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much has changed. "There is danger that the whole business may become a shady horse-trading deal and it may take a long time to sell the horse, if it is sold at all." Obviously nothing was accomplished, last week, in an atmosphere so surcharged, and soon the famed yacht Corsair was off on a little cruise in Venetian waters with her owner, Mr. Morgan...
...save $300,000 annual maintenance and to send nine officers and 148 men back to regular naval duty. Scotch built in 1896, she was purchased by the U.S. from the estate of Ogden Goelet for $480,000 for Spanish War service. President Roosevelt first used her as an official yacht, as did all his successors. President Hoover is no yachtsman...
...fortnight ago Secretary of the Navy Adams ordered scrapped or sold his official yacht, the 31-year-old Sylph. Bought for $50,000 in 1898, she is now too decrepit to repair. Secretary Adams has yachts...
...third famed official yacht is the Apo, assigned to the Governor-General of the Philippines. She, too, was without an official user last week, owing to the departure of Statesman Stimson for the U.S. (see col. 2). As the Amelia she was built in Scotland for King Carlos of Portugal when his son Manuel was a dashingly amorous prince. Many were the joyrides aboard her for the late, luscious actress Gaby Deslys (real name : Madeline Caire, 1884-1920). Manuel first espied Gaby in a disrobing act in a London music hall. Her baby-blue eyes went straight to his heart...
...Queen. Here come Her Majesty of Spain, Her Majesty of Belgium, many a Lord and many a Lady. Not quite so large as Selfridge's, Harrods admits no superior in quality, in clientele. Head of Harrods is Sir Woodman Burbidge, Bart., C.B.E., member of Royal Automobile, Royal Thames Yacht, Ranelagh clubs, Commandeur de l'Ordre de Leopold II of Belgium. Solemn, dignified, impeccable, Harrods last week published in the New York Times and the London Times a series of testimonial advertisements so ingenious as to command the instant admiration of U.S. advertising men, to whom British advertising...