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From the Coast Guard cutter Potomac somewhere in the Bahamas last week, President Roosevelt dispatched two invitations by wireless. One went to the Hon. Sir Bede (pronounced Beedy) Clifford, His Majesty's Governor and Commander-in-Chief at Nassau, to have lunch next day aboard the Potomac. The other went to the White House staff and correspondents twiddling their thumbs in Miami. Would they like to see what President Roosevelt looked like after a week...
...first report (six sentences from Cat Cay, Bahamas) was sent after he had transferred from the Farragut to Vincent Astor's Nourmahal aboard which were all the President's old socialite fishing cronies. It stated that the Governor of the Bahamas, Sir Bede Clifford and his lady, and the Duke of Kent and his lady had formally called upon President Roosevelt aboard the Nourmahal...
...transported directly from the stately charnal-vaults of Chartres. Dimly, along the shadow-filled edges of the room, great banks of books may be seen, arousing in one a sense of the immensity of knowledge and of its intangibility. In this atmosphere one feels the spirit of the venerable Bede, who completed his biblical translation--despite failing eyesight--by candlelight in his cell at Jarrow. Great indeed is the library that fosters this passionate self-forgetfulness...
Last week another stamp, not yet issued, from another British crown colony, made philatelic news. Captain the Hon. Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford. Governor of the Bahamas, announced that he intended using an underwater color photograph taken by U. S. Submarine Photographer 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...
...Manhattan arrived Captain Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford, Governor of the Bahamas, to place contracts for publicity and advertising to boost next season's U. S. winter-resorting in Nassau...