Word: farnsworth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since taking office visited the Washington Navy Yard. He was saluted with 21 guns, boarded the presidential barge, was ferried out into the Potomac near Haines Point, received another salute, boarded the revenue cutter Apache. Leaning over the rail he watched intently while Imp II, driven by Financier Richard Farnsworth Hoyt of Manhattan, won the President's cup for motorboats. The Pres- ident then accepted another salute, was ferried ashore and motored?reversing a decision of the week prior?the 100-odd miles away from Washington's heat and humidity to his Rapidan camp for one more weekend. Guests...
Four snorting speedboats, at the starter's gun, skittered and skimmed away over the Shrewsbury River at Red Bank, N. J., one day last week. One broke a rudder. One turned a flipflop. One's motor languished. Sole survivor was the Imp, owned and driven by Richard Farnsworth Hoyt (Hayden Stone & Co., director of 44 corporations, 20 aviation companies), which roared on lustily to win the gold cup, prime trophy of U. S. speedboating. Imp won all three heats, in the first attained a speed of 51.9 m.p.h., fastest gold cup time since restrictions on engine-power...
...name of the latest roc of transportation is Curtiss-Wright Corp. Its net as sets are 70 million dollars. Its chiefs are to be Chairman Richard Farnsworth Hoyt, 41, Chairman of Wright Aeronautical Corp. & sundry others, and President Clement Melville Keys, 53, President of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor...
...performed the central rites at the opening of the Long Island Aviation Country Club, first of its kind in the U. S. Before several hundred socialites beneath variegated lawn umbrellas, each girl christened a club plane?Bunny, Squirrel, School Marm, Malolo. The girls were Eleanor Hoyt, daughter of Richard Farnsworth Hoyt (see above);* Emily Lawrance, daughter of Charles Lanier Lawrance (see below); Ann McDonnell, daughter of Vice President Edward O. McDonnell of G. M.P. Murphy & Co. (securities); Frances Reaves, daughter of John S. Reaves, chairman of a committee organizing 114 Aviation Country Clubs throughout the country. Each daughter received...
University 150-pound--Stroke, T. N. Perkins, Jr. '31; 7, H. N. Roberts '30; 6 F. E. Farnsworth '29; 5, M. H. McKusick '29; 4, W. W. Ames '31; 3, Harper Woodward '31; 2, J. Q. Adams '31; bow, D. S. Staples '30; cox, Richard Kimball...