Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maxine Elliot Rickard, and daughter will go the bulk of the fortune. Among the assets were worthless stocks of 53 corporations, nearly as many personal notes of no value. His interest in the Miami dog-race track, which cost him $250,000, was sold for $10,000. For his yacht Maxine (purchased from Walter P. Chrysler) the estate received...
...while the missionary assumes that her savior is a lecherous young jack-tar. The two do not meet until they return to Scotland some time later, where the girl turns out to be the daughter of Lord Cairnsmuir and the man no mere mariner but the owner of a yacht. Not realizing these facts, the be castled father (acted by Clive) goes forward with plans to find in the town a suitable wench to act as co-respondent in the promised divorce suit. From this last bit of embarrassment is derived the principle humor of the play, with its culminating...
...concerning the kidnapping, search narrowed down to persons surrounding the person who last saw Charles Augustus, namely, Nurse Gow. It was discovered that on the day of the abduction she had twice communicated by telephone with one Henry ("Red") Johnson, a deckhand in the summertime aboard the yacht of Thomas William Lamont, Morgan partner and good friend of Charles Augustus' late grandfather, Dwight Whitney Morrow. Henry Johnson and Nurse Gow had been friends for three years. He was promptly apprehended in Hartford, Conn, at the home of a brother. Authorities attached importance to the fact that in his green Chrysler...
...years ago last week, the yacht Ohio dropped anchor in the harbor of Monrovia, Liberia. Her owner, Edward Wyllis Scripps, a big bristly-bearded man of 72 for whom the yacht had been Home for four years, had the U. S. Consul aboard to dine with him. After the consul had gone ashore "Old Man" Scripps felt suddenly, terribly, weary. "Too many cigars this evening, I guess," he mumbled. He sank into unconsciousness and in a few minutes his weak old heart ceased to beat...
...readers of Scripps (now Scripps-Howard) papers question the sincerity of a man who amassed a fortune of many millions, lived in quiet ease on a California ranch and aboard a yacht, yet caused his editors always to cry out for the masses, for Labor, for the underdog. Biographer Gardner answers them in two ways. Explicitly the ''Old Man" is quoted as saying of his wealth to a worker: "I can't help it. ... You are too lazy to think for yourselves. . . . You pay me a big income because you think I am worth it. I make decisions for you?...