Word: rears
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Elected. Winthrop Williams Aldrich, Manhattan lawyer; to be commodore of the New York Yacht Club, succeeding Vincent Astor. Other officers: Junius Spencer Morgan Jr., vice commodore: William Adams Walker Stewart, rear commodore. Mr. Aldrich was head of the syndicate which owned the Enterprise, winner of America...
...across the back almost in a straight line instead of in a deep horseshoe. The front railings are high. Socialites are far from the stage. Worse, they cannot be seen by the main floor audience and even find it hard to see one another. Business has been bad. Rear seats are often empty. It is said that the company is $150,000 behind last year in subscriptions. The Sunday matinee series has been discontinued "after a careful inquiry into costs and the probable income." Whether this can all be attributed to hard times is a matter of opinion. Certainly there...
...Cord seem to favor broadcloth for interiors. Many cars have wide, single-bar bumpers. . . . Radiator shields are prominent. . . . Hubcaps are larger. . . . Black predominates for formal cars. . . . Many cars have radios. Le Baron's radio controls are placed in the vanity-box so they may be operated from the rear seat. . . . Duesenberg,* by Judkin, has a complete liquor cabinet. . . . Dashboards are more complicated than ever, with altimeters popular. . . . Much chromium is used on many cars. Some gold and silver plating and solid bronze are used. . . . Metal tire covers are prominent. . . . Radically modern for Brewster was a Rolls-Royce body with...
Mother. The Dictator's rear is Tiflis. His mother lives there in two rooms of what was once the palace of Tsar Nicholas' viceroy of Georgia-the land where Stalin was born. Primarily the palace is now occupied by the Soviet government of the transCaucasian Republic, plastered with posters and slogans relating to the Five-Year Plan. Correspondent Knickerbocker was told that Georgian schoolchildren speak of Stalin as "the man who annexed Russia to Georgia...
...Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan...