Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today the Harvard oarsmen had a cruise on J. P. Morgan's yacht "Corsair." Tonight the Harvard and Yale eights were the dinner guests of W. A. Meikleham, referee of the race, at the Griswold Hotel...
...Offshore winds tugged at the four-starred naval cap clamped firmly on the President's head. Past the presidential yacht Mayflower moved the United States Fleet?98 ships of war, Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes commanding. From the ships came the President's salute (21 guns), from the Mayflower the signal "Well Done"?the navy's formula of highest praise. U. S. President for some four years, President Coolidge had held his first naval review...
...London, Conn., June 12--After their fast time trial yesterday afternoon on the Thames, Coach E. J. Brown '96 gave the University eight a respite today, permitting the squad to accept the invitation of J. Pierpont Morgan '89 to spend the day aboard his palatial steam yacht, Corsair. Yale's first and second crews are also inactive, taking an excursion as the guests of General W. W. Skiddy on his trim power cruiser, Runabout...
...Carquines bridge in California. It was dark on the Natural bridge in Virginia. Suddenly along both bridges flashed rows of lights. In the Navy Department at Washington a radio operator had touched a button. Before touching the button he had received from President Coolidge, aboard the presidential yacht Mayflower, a radio message saying that the button should be touched...
...stirring and shouting at all hours of the day or night. His Majesty, on the contrary, is cold, a martinet; but all the same he was born at Naples in 1869. Therefore thousands of Neapolitans lined the quays last week in their finest frenzy as the royal yacht Savoia, paced by four destroyers, swung into the Bay of Naples. A "favorite son" was home, pandemonium held carnival...