Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louisiana were glad to take Franklin Roosevelt to Bonnet Carre spillway which the Government built to save New Orleans from floods. Finally they put him aboard the destroyer Moffett and waved happily at him and Son Elliott as they disappeared downstream. Two days later the President joined his yacht Potomac at sea, proceeded to Port Aransas near Corpus Christi, and set out to make friends with tarpon...
...Poet Folger McKinsey ("The Bentztown Bard"). Baltimore buzzed with talk at this stunt and local admen took the hint to increase space in the Sunpapers, as Baltimoreans have always called the two sheets. Mr. Black was drowned in 1930, slipping from the taffrail of his yacht Sabalo off the Jersey coast...
...Cinemactor Lee Tracy's yacht Adore fell his 72-year-old mother into Santa Monica harbor, whence she was rescued by her son who dived in fully clothed. Treated for shock and exposure, Mrs. Tracy was removed to her Beverly Hills apartment, where three days later the gas heater caught fire, burned up $250 worth of her clothing...
...Lord Tweedsmuir's press conference, they drove to Fort Myer for a cavalry review (21 guns), laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, were lunched in state by Secretary Hull at the dignified Sulgrave Club, voyaged aboard the Presidential yacht Potomac to Mt. Vernon where they were met by President & Mrs. Roosevelt, saw the tomb and house of Washington, were guests at a state dinner at the White House...
Boarding his yacht Winchester at Miami, 64-year-old Financier Cornelius Vanderbilt III plummeted 12 ft. into Biscayne Bay when the gangplank slipped...