Word: darien
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...Darien, Ga., an early morning last week R. J. Anderson, policeman, gruffly questioned two Negroes fussing near the bank. They shot at him, wounded him, ran and hid in the neighboring swamps. Police Chief Robert L. Freeman led a posse to capture the recreants. The two shot from ambush, killed Chief Freeman, wounded two others. The hunters caught George Grant, 40, locked him in jail. Georgia is restive these days. So Col. Roy Neal of the Georgia National Guard hastened to Darien with 25 men and machine guns. Armed townsmen tramped past the machine guns, grim and unmolested, entered Darien...
...Near Darien, Conn., three alligators were found on Collender's Point after a heavy storm, were taken to the local jail, detained...
...toward the Central Powers. At any rate, there are now no Goldmans in Goldman Sachs. Founders Harry Sachs and Samuel Sachs sometimes visit the offices, are more frequently engaged in trips to Europe and other distant localities. Sons Walter, Arthur and Howard Sachs are partners. Walter Sachs lives at Darien, Conn. Arthur Sachs specializes in foreign exchange...
...George W. Button Jr., of Manhattan and Darien, Conn., was master of ceremonies at a seaplane and motorboat regatta last week. He stood on the dock, signalled for the start, uttered a cry of sudden pain. A burning wad from the little brass cannon, used as a starting gun, had penetrated his left leg to a depth of one inch...
...Payne) Whitney, to be erected at Culebra Cut, on the Panama Canal. It was easy to foresee that U. S. poets might seize this news as a theme with a classic precedent. The classic precedent, however, contains an error. The traveler who first stood "silent upon a peak in Darien" was not "stout Cortez" (Hernando Cortez) as sung by Poet John Keats. It was Vasco Nunez De Balboa. Poets celebrating the proposed Roosevelt statue should bear in mind that Darien is an eastern dis- trict of the Republic of Panama, on the Caribbean side. Culebra Hill, upon which the Roosevelt...