Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mysterious Girl Pat, brand new trawler which ran away from Great Grimsby on the Humber, England, on All Fools' Day and, after lurid adventures, was last reported fortnight ago off Guiana (TIME, June 8 & 22). Before they could investigate, the Girl Pat turned up safely at Georgetown, British Guiana...
Badly in need of food and water, the Girl Pat had called at Devil's Island, sailed out again without papers. Few days later, again out of supplies, the little tub appeared at Georgetown, anchored four miles off the beach. Primed to nab the outlawed craft, port authorities sent U. S. Pilot Art Williams, in Guiana after an air search for Paul Redfern, to fly over her. When Williams reported she was indeed the Girl Pat, a police launch set out to arrest her. As it drew alongside, the Girl Pat's doughty crew of four appeared...
Died, Randolph Perkins, 64. Jersey City, N. J. attorney, since 1920 a member of the U. S. House of Representatives; of a kidney infection; in Georgetown...
...Benets are not returning to a strange land. Almost yearly they have traveled to the U. S., spending much of their time in Washington, where Mrs. Benet was born & reared as Georgetown's Margaret Cox, and where Mr. Benet-belongs to clubs like the Army & Navy and the Metropolitan. In Washington they will make their home...
...Anacostia the Navy got 35 planes off to Hampton Roads before the flying field went under. In Washington 1,500 WPA workers threw up a 19-ft. dike of earth, stone and sandbags to protect the Washington Monument and new Government buildings near the river. Residents of outlying Georgetown took to rowboats and canoes as the waters seeped up, flowed over Washington-Hoover and Bolling flying fields, swept away a few waterfront cottages, lapped the trunks of the famed Japanese cherry trees along the Potomac tidal basin...