Word: riggers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light glowing steadily through the Pacific nights have marked the positions of California's "floating casinos," the gambling ships Rex, Texas, Showboat and Tango. Rows of scarlet neon lights picked them out from stem to stern. Largest and swankest was the Rex, an old, British-built square-rigger, formerly the collier Kenilworth. She was demasted, equipped with a 400-foot saloon on her main deck containing roulette wheels, crap boards, tables for chemin de fer, chuck-a-luck, anything else a gambler's heart might crave. Below were elegant dining rooms, bars, long rows of slot machines...
...Harvard days to the big Class J boats Vanitie and Weetamoe he skippered in the America's Cup trials in 1920 and 1930, after he had married J. P. Morgan's daughter. Once he had gone around the Horn-from New York to Honolulu-in a square rigger...
...bondholders. Then came rumors that Washington might act, that the Philippine Commonwealth would redeem the issue at $65. Bonds shot up to $31 in January and February as speculators bought for the rise, crashed when President Manuel Quezon denied his Government was buying them. Smelling a rigger, SEC investigated, found the flurry had cost speculators about...
...longer classed as a rigger, Bert leaves his combination crew, which faces the Elis in the New London event, in the hands of Tom Boiles and Harvey Love. Also entered in the British race, the Yale lightweights will make the crossing on the same boat...
Because regatta rules prohibit professional coaches from accompanying oarsmen in the yearly classic, Bert Haines will have to go along as a rigger, while Robert F. Herrick '90 takes over the mentor position...