Word: nassau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
After pleasant run last night we are anchored off Little San Salvador where we will fish and swim this afternoon. Leaving tonight and expect to arrive Nassau about 10 tomorrow morning...
...were even called to the colors? It would be a particularly happy circumstance for those who would not come back from the war to collect. Into his sardonic scheme he let a club-mate, Thomas Riggs Jr. The pair formed the Veterans of Future Wars, rented office space on Nassau Street, issued their manifesto. By last week the Veterans of Future Wars idea was rampaging over the nation's campuses...
...eager was impetuous Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. to meet the S. S. Carinthia, inbound from Nassau, that he could not wait until the ship docked at Manhattan. Assisted by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, he arranged for a Coast Guard automobile to carry him to Floyd Bennett Field. There, swaddled in a heavy flying suit and parachute, he boarded a Coast Guard amphibian which shortly deposited him beside the harbor tug Manhattan in the lower bay off Quarantine. Taken to the Carinthia by the tug, he bounded blithely up the gangway, scowled blackly when he ran square into a bevy...
...Crown of Italy. A painter of Queens, he has produced dozens of slick portraits of Queen Mary for clubs, asylums, other institutions. That ardent water colorist Wilhelmina of The Netherlands is so enamored of his brush that she has made him a Grand Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau. Serious critics prefer to think of Sir William's hobby, which has made him an authority on 18th Century British painting, the sale prices and present whereabouts of thousands of paintings being at his finger tips. London newshawks questioned Sir William last week about present-day British painting, found...