Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night before I met Commodore MacFarlane, I set sail from what is now the San Francisco Yacht Harbor for Sausalito. In mid-channel the wind dropped and with a strong ebb: tide we drifted out through the Golden Gate. In those days, as many of the old-timers will remember, we had no auxiliary power, as sailors, men of the old school felt they could put their vessels into most any place they desired under their own sail by the old fashioned method known as "jayhawking." Drifting through the Gate a dense fog came in and I suggested...
...vast aid and comfort to the New Deal in the last three years. Up for renomination in the September primary, Senator Couzens is opposed by Michigan's onetime Governor Wilbur M. Brucker. Refusing to campaign for his seat, the onetime partner of Henry Ford went off for a yacht cruise, remarking: "I don't intend to compete with Brucker. If the people are dissatisfied with my work, I shall be content to stand aside." Back in Detroit last week, rich and radical Senator Couzens seemed to cut his own Republican throat when he declared: "Believing...
Astonished Balkan natives beheld last week the spectacle of a great white yacht from which small white objects flew, each with a sharp ping as it left the deck and a plop as it was lost in the Adriatic. Each ping-plop cost about 15 dinars, the peasants learned, and in the rural Balkans that is enough to buy a needed shirt or a night's drunken carouse (35?). They had always heard that "the English Milords are all rich" and they could well believe it last week, watching King Edward & Friends drive off his chartered...
Driving to his yacht in Cannes harbor Prince Juan was enthusiastically booed by Communist French fishermen. Next day members of Prince Juan's family attended the christening of his first child, a daughter...
Subpoenaed last week as he stepped from the yacht of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Producer Irving Thalberg, Playwright Kaufman made no formal comment to the Press, but was reported by friends to have torn his hair and cried "I'm being crucified -crucified!" When he failed to appear as the subpoena directed, a warrant was issued for his arrest...