Word: nassau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening match of the Intercollegiate Tournament takes place tomorrow, when Princeton meets the Pennsylvania Military Academy at Princeton. The game, scheduled originally for Rumson, was transferred to Nassau as part of the Commencement celebration there...
...agrees with Heywood Broun that good football games like good wine are better for the mellowing effect of age. Harvard and Princeton students of today regret that Harvard men of yesterday published a Lampoon of many barbs, that Princeton men paraded down Nassau Street on the night of the break rejoicing. --The Daily Princetonian...
...would not have been respectful to hint that at 21 the heiress of the House of Orange-Nassau should have a husband. Dutch delicacy forbade that. But it was permissible, right, even a duty to hint that the Dutch East Indies have not yet received a visit from Her Royal Highness Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, Duchess of Ficklebourg, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Crown Princess of the Netherlands...
...achievement extolled by Subscriber Merritt was that of District Attorney Elvin Newton Edwards of Nassau County, L. I., N. Y. In an official report he declared that of 210 persons tried before the Grand Jury of his county last year for maintaining public nuisances (in this case speakeasies), 205 pleaded guilty or were convicted. Cost of getting evidence: $50.000. Total of fines imposed: $70,000. Profit to Nassau County from these Prohibition activities...
...fray is a little known U. S. concern, Paris American Airways, which competes with Pan American from Porto Rico to Trinidad, crossing en route Guadeloupe and Martinique. Another observer is the Colonial government of the Bahamas. Governor Charles William James Orr from his hill-cresting House at Nassau sees with no equanimity Pan American planes carrying mail, passengers and express between Nassau and Miami, and from Miami dominating the whole Caribbean. He wishes for a British air service to link the Central British possessions of the Americas...