Word: bahamians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much to explain, really. On April 30, when he had asked to be relieved, his normal five-year tenure would still have three months to run. (The newsmen had heard the rumor that the Duke wanted to leave then because the Duchess could not stand the heat of the Bahamian summer. But the Duke said nothing about that.) Some distant day, said the Governor, he and the Duchess would like to return. "I have a deep affection for the Bahamas...
Amid strange surroundings, the Duke of Windsor, who is also the Governor of the Bahamas, called on 214 of his constituents last week. The place: a Farm Security Administration camp near Swedesboro, N.J. The constituents: some of the 2,000 Bahamian Negroes brought to the U.S. to help relieve the farm manpower shortage...
...flat, swampy farms along the eastern shore of Florida's Lake Okeechobee, where the rich, black muck sometimes goes as deep as 20 feet, and the long green beans ripen 45 days after planting, the first group of Bahamian Negroes brought to the U.S. in World War II went to work last week...
What had happened was that some 2,500 Bahamian natives had rioted down Nassau's swank Bay Street, smashing shop windows, helping themselves to expensive liquors, French perfumes, fine English fabrics. Said one excited spectator: "It was just like Pearl Harbor-it came so suddenly." Panicky merchants lowered their hurricane shutters and the British garrison police bore down on the mob. There was wild street fighting. Three of the rioters were killed, 40 arrested. The mob gradually retreated, with its stolen liquor, to native Grant's Town. But peace was not restored until the Duke returned and promised...
...playground superintendents the Windsors are well experienced, will find the routine of Nassau reassuringly similar to that of the Riviera. To the swank Jungle Club go top-flight visiting Nassau socialites to dine, to the equally swank Bahamian Club for dancing or gambling. On nearby Hog Island are the tennis courts and swimming pools of the exclusive Porcupine Club. Below green-shuttered Government House are the warm waters of Nassau harbor, crowded with sleek yachts and fishing launches. Two hours flight away is the Florida coast and its U.S. winter resorts. The cartoonists of the U. S. press were quick...