Word: custodian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High, square and weather-beaten on a bluff above the entrance to Oyster Bay, L. I., the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club lacks the austerity of the New York Yacht Club, custodian of the America's Cup, but it has a trophy of its own which, for small-boat sailors the world over, matches the glamor of that famed receptacle. The Seawanhaka Cup, put up for international races in 1895, has been won by Canada, Scotland and Norway. Last week, a fine summer's sailing on Long Island Sound reached its climax at Seawanhaka with a three...
Once a bleak, barren island, Midway has been a cable relay station for Commercial Pacific Cable Co. for 32 years. The cable colony comprises 23 men including the resident superintendent who also serves as naval custodian, a resident physician, five Chinese, seven Japanese. The Pan American men bring the total population to 57. Advance crews from the North Haven moved in 2,000 tons of material-160,000 separate items. On a broad clearing they erected seven buildings including a power plant with 9-ton Diesel-electric generators, kitchen & mess hall, refrigeration plant with six months' food supplies, airport...
...just before Clerk Sweitzer left office. But a real explosion took place when Sweitzer's successor asked for an audit of county funds. Biggest and most immediate deficiency was found in the fund into which delinquent taxes are paid. In the 24 years which Bob Sweitzer had been custodian of the fund, the audit showed at least $350,000 had vanished. Also raised when the County Board called Bob Sweitzer to account fortnight ago were the facts that he had apparently collected all interest on deposited county funds for his first eleven years in office, that he had used...
Lawyer Neylan has never lost a jury trial (he refuses criminal and divorce cases), has lost only one case of great importance. That was a $10,000,000 suit by H. Hackfeld & Co., German sugar growers in Hawaii, whose property had been seized and reorganized by the Alien Property Custodian...
...establishment of Pacific air service. An isolated cable relay station for 32 years, Midway is known to most mariners merely as a lighthouse. In charge of the small colony, which includes five Chinese and seven Japanese, is Acting Cable Superintendent G. B. Perry, who is also U. S. Naval custodian of the island...