Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Jordan Lawrence Mott, 74, of Manhattan, onetime president of J. L. Mott Iron Works (now in receivership) ; of heart disease; in Nelson Harbor, Bahama Islands, B. W. L, on board the yacht of his friend Allison Armour...
Meanwhile the flamboyant Mr. Thompson is strangely taciturn. When defeated for re-election, he was reported to have left for the South Seas in his private yacht, to hunt for flying fish. In one form or another, catching fish has always been Mr. Thompson's hobby. The once-mighty Capone is contemplating the stripes in his new suit, while his henchmen maintain bread-lines from the profit of their labors. The city has six hundred fifty thousand unemployed, and a financial Gordian knot which has yet to find its Alexander. Whatever its future may bring, history will record that...
...graduated from Yale (1909), Harvard Law School (1912), belongs to six Manhattan clubs. But he spends most of his spare time in his laboratory, which is often full of Yale, Harvard, Princeton professors working on scientific projects. No commercial experiments are performed there. He cruises on his yacht; golfs and tennises adeptly. Medium-sized, with sharp dark eyes and brown curly hair, Banker Loomis likes to look like a businessman, dislikes the publicity given to his scientific work. He has three children, all boys: Alfred Lee Jr., 18; William Farnsworth, 16; Henry...
...Chicago tall, fine-looking Mr. Avery is now regarded as Morgan's Man, for Montgomery Ward is a "Morgan company." He lives in Evanston, has a town apartment, a yacht named Lenore (his wife's middle name). A University of Michigan man (LL. B. 1894) he is one of the University of Chicago's most helpful trustees. Its Distinguished Service chair was founded by him with $250,000 endowment. Seldom publicized, he is quietly recognized as one of Chicago's first citizens. His recognition by the House of Morgan after U. S. Gypsum's showing...
Campbell collected volunteers. His stout friend Lee Guinness lent a yacht. Unfortunately the yacht had been sold, had to be returned to its purchaser by a certain date, so they had only one week actually on Cocos to find the treasure. But Capt. Campbell had very specific clues, thought a week would do it. Cocos. 400 mi. off the Colombian coast of South America, is a small island (six nautical miles each way) but mountainous, covered with dense undergrowth. The clue, naturally not divulged, was supposed to lead to a large rock which formed the door of the treasure cave...