Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less than a million dollars to his name can well afford to own a yacht. So far there are three men out for election as Senator in Pennsylvania next fall. Every one of them could afford a yacht. In the background are four or five more men potent in Pennsylvania politics. They, too, could have yachts. Pennsylvania has rich leaders...
CONVENTION ! With what complete sway it rules us! How inexorable its mandates I refer to the footnote on p. 20 of TIME, Feb. 22. It, in turn, refers to a man who spends most of his time on his yacht...
When this man of eminence found that life at sea served his personal and business aims best, he had a yacht especially constructed for his purposes. (It is not unlike all other yachts except in the matter of strength, reserve engines, large fuel and water-storage facilities, and provides a comfortable, humane habitation for all on board, inclusive even of the sailors. No, there are no "padded decks...
When he boarded his yacht, he gave but one instruction: that its discipline and etiquet should be that of a well-ordered HOME, rather than that of a ship of any sort...
TIME commented as follows re E. W. Scripps: "He founded the Scripps-McRae syndicate of 28 newspapers. Aged 71, he is a hermit-millionaire, a sea hermit (like the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer) sailing the seven seas on a yacht with padded decks. Again like Pulitzer, he cannot bear noise; his officers run his crew by dumb show. He smokes 50 cigars daily, sits in the saloon while two women alternately read to him. Satiated, he calls for his checkerboard. He cruises a course mapped to keep the Ohio in balmy climes. Last week he was forced to go ashore...