Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maximum attendance. Soon he was pouring into their ears a tale of unethical practices, of rich men who had avoided taxes by hiring high-priced lawyers to find loopholes in the law. He had before him case histories provided by the Treasury Department. One man had incorporated his yacht and transferred to the corporation $3,000,000 in securities. Much of the income from these securities then escaped taxation, being used to pay the "losses" of the corporation from which he "chartered" the yacht at fees which fell far short of paying its upkeep. Other rich men formed partnerships with...
...lost by such schemes? He could not say, exactly. Had this tax-dodging just sprung up? No, it had been growing for several years, but lately it was much worse. How many people were engaged in it? Not many, perhaps about 150 of the very rich. Who was the yacht owner? Oh, it was illegal to name the tax-dodgers out of court. They would come out. A Congressional investigation can reveal anything...
Died. George Fisher Baker, 59, son, heir, namesake and successor of the late founder-chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank; of peritonitis; in Honolulu Harbor aboard his 272-ft. yacht Viking. Conscientious, conservative, he never made a speech or gave an interview, he lived in the lengthening shadow of his father's name. He had been First National's chairman since his father's death six years ago at 91, but active direction was in the hands of men like Jackson Reynolds and Leon Fraser. In poor health for the past three years, Mr. Baker...
Inside "The Yacht Club," midtown Manhattan nightspot, a lady bouncer named Lois de Fee (6 ft. 3 in., 180 Ib.) claimed that little Lew Brice, Comedienne Fanny's brother, suddenly turned on her and gave her a rabbit punch, then blacked both eyes, broke her nose. Arrested, Brice claimed Bouncer de Fee started...
Approaching Honolulu in his yacht the Cressida, George Vanderbilt his wife and three friends put on bathing suits, put off in a speedboat and skimmed ashore. Next day the Vanderbilts & friends were fined $500 each for evading customs inspection...