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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mrs. Jennie Merryweather Rivens Byrd, 91, relict of Col. William Byrd, grandmother of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and onetime Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia; at Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 7, 1930 | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

...program employed on the trip as announced by Manager J. R. Graham '30, will be partly secular and partly religious. It will include the following selections: "Jerusalem" by Parry, "Justorum Animae" by Byrd, "Marching" by Brahms, Three pictures from "The Tower of Babel", "May No Rash. In-truder" from "Solomon" by Handel, Choruses from "Ruddigore" by Sullivan, "Dirge for Two Veterans" by Holst, "Fireflies"--a Russian folk song, "Summer Evening" by Finrish

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB STARTS TRIP TOMORROW | 4/4/1930 | See Source »

...Zealand journalists foregathered at Dunedin to honor Russell Owen, returning Byrd expedition newspaperman. They gave him a paperweight made of New Zealand greenstone, surmounted by a silver model of the Kiwi (New Zealand bird with rudimentary wings useless for flying), toasted him "the only newspaperman in the world who has covered assignments in both Polar regions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 24, 1930 | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...broke, gentlemen. I still feel an impulse to explore, but at 65 one must abandon such things. ... I have no assurance that Amundsen is not yet alive. There is ample room to hope he will survive. The observations of Byrd and Amundsen verify the reports I made of what I found at the North Pole. I may have been some miles from the Pole, but there never will be absolute proof of the attainment of the Pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Oilman Out | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...that night the ship crew and ice party loaded goods into the City of New York. The dogs went with them. But most of their heavy equipment they abandoned. The last thing Admiral Byrd did on shore was to haul down the U. S. flag. As the ship pulled away for her three weeks' trip, through the icepack of Ross Sea, to New Zealand, and as his men breakfasted or dragged their sacks of home mail to reading seclusion, he saluted two long objects which rested, dejectedly, they seemed to him, on an ice knoll. They were the Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Antarctic Exodus | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

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