Word: nassau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major Sir Charles William James Orr, Governor & Commander in Chief of the Bahamas, clambered from the S. S. Berengaria to a tug at Quarantine, N. Y., caught the outbound S. S. Munargo, saved two weeks between England and Nassau...
Last week in Nassau County, N. Y. the district attorney threatened to proceed against Curtiss-Wright Airport and Roosevelt Field as public nuisances because residents complained that planes droning over their rooftops at all hours of the night made sleep impossible. The matter was settled by the field managers agreeing to a curfew of 11 p. m. in summer, 10 p. m. in other seasons. Night flying, they explained, is a Department of Commerce requisite for student flyers in qualifying for advanced ratings...
Engaged. Crown Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, Princess Royal of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of Mecklem-bourg, 21; to Prince William Ernest Henry Alfred of Erbach-Schoenberg, Prince of Michelstadt and of Odenwald, Hessen, Germany, 26; with the consent of the Cabinet of the Dutch Government...
...young, high-bred Holstein bull, en route from Pennsylvania to Porto Rico (object: paternity), arrived last week on the Staten Island shore of New York Harbor in a big strong crate on a motor truck. The truck went aboard the ferryboat Nassau. The motion of the ferry excited the bull. It hooked at the crate's slats, then hurled its 1,200 lbs. against the end boards, burst through, charged the truck driver and the ferry's brass-buttoned mate. All passengers and the mate fled to the top deck, leaving the bull snorting and plunging below. Came...
...Nassau blew her siren. Police boats and a tug swarmed around. Ropes and advice were thrown to the swimming bull, who submerged when capture seemed near, to come up snorting, blowing and swimming further away. After one such disappearance the pursuers gave the animal up, thought it had drowned. Hours later, a fisherman inbound off Sea Gate, some seven miles from the bull's dive, beheld a horned creature swimming out to sea with the tide. The fisherman approached, threw an anchor rope, caught and towed the beast, still belligerent, to shallow water at Coney Island...