Word: bahamians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gabardine sport coat to receive his guests. When press and secretaries soared in aboard a Pan-American plane, they found Franklin Roosevelt on the quarter-deck of the Potomac entertaining his guests, the Governor General and Lady Clifford (nee Gundry of Cleveland); Sir George Johnson, President of the Bahamian Legislative Council; U. S. Consul Frank A. Henry & Wife...
Though still bearing the tan of his Bahamian vacation, President Roosevelt seemed to White House observers last week almost as tired, harassed and supersensitive as when he went away. Three mutually aggravating circumstances had helped to make him so. They were...
...John Ernest Williamson as decoration for a new airmail stamp. Should The Crown's presses break down when his new stamp was being printed, he might produce one or two stamps which would eventually rival the 1¢ British Guiana's value. But it seemed more likely that the new Bahamian stamps would retain only their nominal value despite the fact that the first batch of letters bearing the airmail stamps will be sent from the submerged Williamson "photosphere...
...Blackbeard, used to water his ships, count his loot. A wily ruffian, he wore his luxurious whiskers in fine points, braided them with gay ribbons in peace, with smouldering slow matches in war. Bootleggers load their ships at Nassau today. Not far from the New Colonial Hotel is the Bahamian Club, a discreet drinking, gambling resort that used to be operated by the late "Honest John" Kelly of New York. Here, shortly before Chicago's famed Valentine Day Massacre of 1929, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone & friends were entertained at a memorable party by a prominent New York...
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, returning to Washington from a Bahamian cruise, read reports and declared: "The Coast Guard gave the craft warning. It was endeavoring to escape and the Coast Guard could not do less than it did. . . . If the Coast Guard couldn't shoot, they couldn't carry out their instructions...