Word: nassau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chain Store Scion Huntington (A. & P.) Hartford, 48, quietly mimeographed word that he has acquired the bulk of a coral isle in the Bahamas, just off the city of Nassau. On Philanthropist Hartford's program: to develop the place as a vacation paradise for "people of quality from all walks of life. There will be no automobiles, no roulette wheels, no honky-tonks." What "Hunty" Hartford wanted most to create was "an atmosphere of cultural enjoyment.'' It seemed a pity that his latest good work will be located on grounds that some may shun for esthetic reasons...
...killed Sir Harry Oakes? Like Sir Harry himself, the issue had been dead for 16 years, and Nassau's nice people never talked about it. But last week Cyril Stevenson, an irreverent minority member of Nassau's House of Assembly, loudly claimed that he knew who did Sir Harry in. Stevenson did not identify the culprit, Sir Harry's murderer stayed doggo, and the whole effect was rather like spilling the canape tray at a Government House garden party...
Dark-skinned Cyril Stevenson. 45, editor of the weekly Nassau Herald, has never wasted any love on the potent clique of financiers and real-estate barons known as the "Bay Street Pirates" who control the Assembly. As he told it last week. Sir Harry's killer was one of the Bay Street boys, and Stevenson had the evidence to back it. Actually, his evidence is nothing more than a list of unanswered questions that have been puzzling Raymond Schindler, 77, U.S. private detective, ever since...
...more than a century everyone had managed to get along just fine, even though part of the town was called Baarle-Hertog and was Belgian, and the other was called Baarle-Nassau and was Dutch. Then one day in 1939, a Belgian named Sooi Van Den Eijnde decided to lead his pigs across Lots 91 and 92. The Netherlands Railways, convinced that the lots were Dutch, had built nine houses there, and the Dutch customs official lived in one of them...
...smuggling. Even legitimate businessmen can prosper by setting up their establishments on both sides of the border and operating in whichever country happens to offer the more favorable price levels and the lower taxes. "From the cradle to the grave," says Dutch Burgomaster Franciscus de Grauw of Baarle-Nassau, "our actions violate the law." "But," adds his Belgian colleague, Burgomaster Jan Loots of Baarle-Hertog, "we feel 100% delighted with the situation...