Word: nassau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhassett Bay on the north shore, the Long Island Sound waterfront was smashed in. On the south shore, buildings at Jones Beach were blown toward the sea instead of back into the bays. Torrential floods halted traffic and, like most of Suffolk County to the east, 95% of Nassau County (pop. 303,000) was in darkness. Brooklyn and New York City, catching the fringe of winds which registered 120 m. p. h. in some gusts, were flooded and stalled. Lights went out for an hour, subways halted, when the Hellgate powerhouse was flooded by storm tide. The Staten Island ferryboat...
Estimated value of all his properties, which included such swank establishments as the British Colonial in Nassau, the Miami Biltmore in Miami Beach, Key Largo Club on the Keys...
...Papal Marquis, was close friend to the late Patrick Cardinal Hayes. He often played host to Cardinal Hayes in Nassau, which until 1932 was part of the Archdiocese of New York. Mr. MacDonald has been going to Florida for 25 winters, to Nassau for 15. After last week's deal, he will never again have to worry about where to stay...
Robert George Nassau, Brooklyn, New York--James Madison High School...
Thus The Netherlands-which has $1,000,000,000 invested in the U. S., second only to Great Britain-became fourth biggest U. S. customer (after Great Britain, Canada, Japan). Instrumental in arranging the trade pact was a close-cropped Knight of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer Pieter Jacob Six, owner of the world's greatest collection of Rembrandts, four of them portraits of members of his own family. Jonkheer Six likes to point out that both the U. S. and Holland are creditor nations, that their trade needs complement each other. Last January he and Dr. E. H. von Baumhauer...