Word: zee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Palestine is far from the only organized settlement of Jewish refugees, although it is by far the most costly and troublesome. A small settlement exists in The Netherlands on land reclaimed from the Zuider Zee. There are others in Czechoslovakia, Russia, South America. Most have followed Palestine in having friction with the previous inhabitants. From Costa Rica last week came word that Refugee Economic Corp. of Manhattan has purchased for a reputed $1 an acre the 50,000-acre Tenorio estate in Guanacosti Province to become a Jewish community where refugees from Nazi Germany may enjoy peace and raise soya...
Above the broad Tappan Zee, above Haverstraw, above the ledge-hugging concrete strip of U. S. Route 9 W rises a palisade actually called High Tor. Storms lash it furiously. And Playwright Anderson believes that the airplane beacon on its top was twice bowled over by stormy Dutchmen marooned for three centuries on High Tor, waiting for a ship to take them back to Amsterdam from the dark side of the world...
...convoy of 60 Dutch seaplanes celebrating the 20th birthday of the Royal Dutch Air Force with a mass formation of their own. Down came the first black triad, led by the plane labelled I-BALB (Balbo's), to a neat landing in the Zuider Zee. Loud cheers from the throngs on the dikes. Down came the next led by I-PELL (Pellegrini). Then the first red group-I-DINI (Captain Baldini at the controls). Inexplicably the leading red plane smacked the water like a cannonball, somersaulted once, settled into the mud. Captain Baldini and three crewmen were fished...
...yachting. In his own (much overpublicized) yacht, the Velsa, a 55-ft. Dutch cutter with an auxiliary engine, a piano and an encyclopedia, with timbers that recalled the Constitution and "a cockpit in which Hardy might have kissed Nelson,'' he voyaged amiably on the Zuyder Zee, the Baltic and numerous friendly canals and English estuaries. During the War Bennett lent the Velsa to the Admiralty, and it was afterwards sold, but he rarely turned down an invitation to go cruising. In 1927 he shipped as a guest of Otto Kahn on a Mediterranean yachting trip. Though he dressed...
...formal dinner given in their honor at the University of Iowa. Harry Breene, Iowa City's newly elected Republican Mayor, a onetime railroad ticket agent, slipped, sprawled headlong into a fountain. He crawled out spluttering. shook water on nearby guests, fled in confusion. Nonplussed, Jacob Van der Zee. Iowa's Rhodes Scholarship committeeman, ordered the banquet to proceed. Local newspapers loyally suppressed their best story in years...