Word: yachtsmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Month ago in Manhattan, idle seamen complained to the municipal employment bureau that certain U. S. yacht owners were importing foreign seamen under bond to run their boats, instead of employing U. S. hands. The bureau took the names of the yachtsmen complained against, sent them to Secretary of Labor Doak. Last week in Manhattan the sport of tycoons was again mentioned in connection with unemployment. Explained Broker Edward F. Button, owner of Hussar...
...Dictator Machado's favorite club, the Havana Union, a bomb was exploded last week, reputedly by sympathizers of the Havana Yacht Club which he padlocked (TIME, Jan. 19) when one of its members "snubbed" a member of his cabinet. A club which had extended courtesies to the ousted yachtsmen had its municipally-owned golf course taken away...
...Powers, Johnson, Mallock, Sparrow, Prior and Domin-gos-masters all. On a day of white piling seas the two boats put out around the 37-mi. course. Though a 14-knot breeze was blowing, Captain Walters of Bluenose scoffed the idea that the weather was rough. Rough for amateur yachtsmen, perhaps, with their useless boats that have to duck into harbor whenever a breeze strikes...
...Amateur yachtsmen seldom get excited about races between the fishing schooners of the Grand Banks. They feel that fishermen ignore the finer points of yachting. Furious brawls, after races off Gloucester and Cape Cod, have resulted from the claim that one boat fouled another. The fishermen sail according: to fishing rather than sporting tradition. They crowd sail on their boats at all times, not realizing that under certain conditions a boat carrying less sail will move faster. In one race with the Canadian champion, the U. S. competitor came in first because one of its topsails blew away...
...America's Cup races seemed at an end, for English and American yachtsmen were almost literally at swords' points. But in 1899 came Sir Thomas Lipton, flying the burgee of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club. He has competed for the trophy more than any other man (five times) and the races, which until his participation had never been without acrimony, became graced with the most decorous of seagoing courtesy...