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Amid strange surroundings, the Duke of Windsor, who is also the Governor of the Bahamas, called on 214 of his constituents last week. The place: a Farm Security Administration camp near Swedesboro, N.J. The constituents: some of the 2,000 Bahamian Negroes brought to the U.S. to help relieve the farm manpower shortage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANPOWER: Lesson in Transplanting | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...Swedesboro, N. J., for its tercentenary last August, Prince Bertil of Sweden told his guard of 72 New Jersey traffic policemen that he would like to make every mother's son of them a sergeant in the Swedish Navy. Last week each of the 72 received from the Swedish Embassy a gold pin emblazoned with the royal coat of arms, and several telephoned the local consulate to make sure of their new rank. The consul replied that Bertil, though grateful, had a sense of humor: even the Swedish Navy has no sergeants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 5, 1938 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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