Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Humber, last All Fools' Day, the Orsbornes and two other fishermen ran away with the new trawler Girl Pat, chugged south for an unknown destination (TIME, June 8 et seq.). Three months later, after a wild, zigzag cruise across the South Atlantic, the Orsbornes & crew were apprehended at Georgetown, British Guiana...
...this war against a hidden enemy Dr. Parran has had long training. He joined the Public Health Service in 1917 when he was 25 and two years out of Georgetown University School of Medicine. By 1925 he was chief of the Service's division of venereal diseases. Largely because he was an expert in that field he became Health Commissioner of New York State in 1930 upon nomination of his great, good friend and backer Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Largely for the same reason he became Surgeon General last spring, upon nomination of President Roosevelt. A Roman Catholic Marylander...
...Georgetown, British Guiana, Pundit Mahangoo married a third time on his 106th birthday, squeaked: "I believe love rejuvenates...
When Skipper Orsborne and his three freebooting cronies were lugged cursing to the Georgetown jail at the end of their jaunt, they were mysteriously released at once. Seamen John Hector Harris and Howard ("Ginger") Stephens presently journeyed home to England via New York. The Brothers Orsborne landed back in jail for street-fighting, were kept there on complaint of the Girl Pat's owners, Marstrand Fishing Co., who have already collected ?3,000 insurance for her loss...
Left behind in Georgetown, the tubby little Girl Pat lay at her wharf while Lloyd's agents suspiciously awaited "allegations...