Word: hammonds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spain, on the Bay of Biscay during the last three weeks. King Alfonso XIII went there to join his queen and children. Yachts and warships speckled the harbor. There were receptions in the Magdalena Palace, dances in the clubs, frolicking townsfolk and tourists everywhere. U. S. Ambassador Ogden H. Hammond came down from Madrid. There was a short yacht race; the Queen trounced the King, and the infantes Gonzalo and Jaime finished in the rear; General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marques de Estella, Duque de Ajdur and Dictator of Spain, a spectator, laughed softly on the deck...
...recognized Your Majesty." Nina, tiniest of all the yachts and first to finish in the race from New York to Santander, won the Queen's cup for boats of less than 55 feet waterline length. She had crossed the Atlantic in 24 days. Said her skipper. Paul Hammond: "We carried all the sail we could, but we did not drive the yacht and we shortened sail whenever the weather was heavy...
...outstanding feature of the opening address of Governor-General Henry L. Stimson to the Philippine Legislature, published last week by the U. S. War Department, was a long quotation from a survey-report of the Islands by Vice President Lyman P. Hammond of the Electric Bond & Share Co. (part of the so-called U. S. "Power Trust"). The Stimson-Hammond point: Let the Filipinos revise their land and corporation laws so as to permit the introduction of U. S. capital and management. Contrary to custom, even the brashest U. S. liberals were slow to cry "Wall Street" on this occasion...
...Island independence and an old-time opponent of "foreign" capital in the Philippines, applauded the Stimson document; said that the law changes suggested should not be difficult to effect. This was good news to such outreaching U. S. interests as the Firestones of Ohio (rubber) and doubtless Surveyor Hammond's Electric Bond & Share...
Soon there hove into sight the schooner yacht Elena, to be pronounced winner of the cup offered by King Alfonso for Class A boats. The small boats left New York June 30, followed eight days later by the Class A entries. Elihu Root Jr., and Paul Hammond were in command of the Nina; Owner William B. Bell of Manhattan commanded the Elena...