Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Penrose's more respectable pastimes was giving houseparties on his yacht to fellow-legislators and lady friends. On one occasion Penrose emerged on deck completely ready for a swim. A lady screamed at the sight. "Madame," said Senator Penrose, "I grant that mine is not the form of Apollo, but it is too late for either of us to do anything about that. But if I present what to you are strange or unfamiliar phenomena, it is you who should be ashamed, not I." The rise of Philadelphia's Vare brothers worried Penrose's declining years; more...
...gunboat Sacramento sailed from Cocos Island to Balboz, C. Z. with three castaways discovered last fortnight by Julius Fleischmann (TIME, Nov. 2), who sailed away in the opposite direction on his yacht Camargo. The castaways- Elmer J. Palliser, Paul Stackwick, Gordon Brawner-were in fair health, but fat and flabby from their six-month diet of coconuts and wild...
...course of an economy program, the Duke of Westminster sold his four-masted 203-ft. yacht Flying Cloud to Nelson B, Warden of Philadelphia...
Cocos Island is an uninhabited spot of jungle in the Pacific, fabled rendezvous of pirates, 500 mi. southwest of Panama. There last week paused the yacht Camargo, carrying Julius Fleischmann, yeast scion, his wife & two small children and three friends on a two-year cruise of the world. To their astonishment the Fleischmann party found signs of life ashore, discovered the abandoned camp of three shipwrecked sailors whose yawl West Wind sailed from San Diego last December. A note stated that the castaways had struck into the interior 48 hr. earlier in search of food because they had exhausted...
...young men who have been the driving force in the I. M. M.-Roosevelt combination. Of these the central figure is Kermit Roosevelt, diffident, able son of the late great Theodore. To his success with a small jute-carrying line was added the vast wealth of that solemn yacht-lover, Vincent Astor, who describes himself as "head of the Astor family in the U. S." Roosevelt ambition plus Astor money plus the friendship of young John M. Franklin, resulted in control of I. M. M. of which young Mr. Franklin's father remains titular head. That the young...