Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troops in the World War. Surgeon Keen assisted in the secret removal of a sarcoma from the mouth of Stephen Grover Cleveland in 1893. Fearing the precarious financial situation would be aggravated by news of his cancer, President Cleveland had the operation performed aboard Elias C. Benedict's yacht Oneida. While the yacht steamed slowly up Manhattan's East River into Long Island Sound, most of his upper left jaw and part of his palate were cut away. Five days later President Cleveland was able to walk ashore when the Oneida docked at his Massachusetts summer home...
Edward Laurence Doheny idled at his Beverly Hills, Calif, home where he collects fine paintings, grows tropical plants. One day he went cruising on his yacht. Edward Laurence Doheny Jr. who carried "the little black bag" was killed by his secretary...
...used by the Mayor as a repository for papers relating to one law case. To him Fugitive Sherwood was simply an unpaid secretary who took money (between $800 and $1,000 a month) to Mayor Walker's widowed sister, paid the expenses of plump Mrs. Walker's yacht (the Mary W.), tended financial odd jobs...
Died. James Lyle Mackay, first Earl of Inchcape, 79, British banking & shipping tycoon, board chairman of famed Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., vice president of Suez Canal Co.; after a general breakdown; aboard his yacht Rover, off Monte Carlo. His family withheld the news of his death until the London Stock Exchange closed. A poor Scottish boy, he rose to wealth & power in Indian trading firms. Branching out into Far Eastern shipping, Lord Inchcape became an authority on Oriental trade, negotiated Britain's basic commercial treaty with China in 1902. His daughter Elsie was lost in 1928 when...
...duplicated. He created Imperatrice and Beatrice (broadcloths) and most of the vogue-starting woolens including Marvella, Gerona, Charmeen and Chonga. He works alone in designing his fabrics and seeking colors from such sources as the plumage of birds in the Museum of Natural History. On his Kiel-built yacht Orion (333 ft., one of the world's largest) a radio keeps him in touch with his business...