Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Briand presently left Geneva, returned to Paris, received the formal assent of his Cabinet to what he had done. Then he went off to his farm at Concherel on the coast of Normandy for a brief vacation. "I shall probably take a short sea trip in a very small yacht," he said, "the smaller the better, for the sea was my first love...
...racing sloop Isolde, leased by Commodore Vincent Astor of the New York Yacht Club from Commodore Henry L. Maxwell of the Larchmont Yacht Club, was in a collision off Sands Point, L. I., sank in three minutes. Only the crew was aboard...
...speed record last week. Contestants: H. R. D. ("Daisy") Waghorn, 25; R. L. R. Atcherly, 25; d'Arcy Grieg, 29; Giovanni Monti, 29; Rema Cadringher, 26; Tomaso dal Molin, 27. Lining Solent spithead were at least 1,000,000 spectators -the Prince of Wales on a yacht with his crony, rich Philip Sassoon, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald with foreign ambassadors on the aircraft carrier Argus. Absent from race and show was Alford Joseph Williams, U. S. contestant, who had to withdraw because his racing plane would not leave the trial waters of the Severn River, Md. (TIME...
Never before did a foreign yacht win all its races in U. S. waters. U. S. yachtsmen consoled themselves with the fact that the 30-square meter specifications required in this regatta, long common in Germany and Sweden, have rarely been met by U. S. designers before this year...
...company's stock was multi plied 15 times. That was only the begin ning of a career of reorganizations and purchases. Today George K. Morrow. 55, keen-eyed, grey, sturdy, has a home on Long Island, golfs week-endly at the Pomonok Country Club (Flushing), owns the Mono, yacht of the late Marcus Loew...