Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...similar case once myself. Two Indians with me in British Guiana when we were about five days by canoe from anywhere, had their legs crushed and most certainly would have died within two days. I put them out of their suffering with morphine and was thanked by the other Indians in my party. . . . As to whether I intentionally killed them, that is something I don't care to discuss. I should rather let people draw their own conclusions...
Engaged. Philip Aaron ("Phil"') Edwards, 24, Negro, onetime captain of the New York University track team, joint holder of the American intercollegiate record for the half-mile and member of the 1928 Canadian Olympic Team at Amsterdam, the son of a British Guiana magistrate, to Miss Edith Margaret Oedelschoff, 19, German, of Weehawken...
...Anne Morrow Lindbergh unknowingly last week came into part of her heritage. Ambassador & Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow created a $1,000,000 trust fund for her benefit. Meanwhile her husband was flying her with President & Mrs. Juan Terry Trippe of Pan-American Airways back from Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana (TIME, Sept. 30) to the U. S., by way of Central America. Later this month, the Lindberghs intend to explore by air Mayan ruins among Yucatan forests. In the office of Colonel Lindbergh's publisher* last week was the manuscript of his new book, We Fly, in which he sets down...
...America President Juan Terry Trippe & wife. Technical Adviser Charles Augustus Lindbergh & wife, and others, flew from Miami for Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, by way of Florida and the Antilles. They were to return to the U. S. by way of northern South America and Central America. Mrs. Lindbergh asked fellow passengers to call her Anne. She calls her husband Augustus. Col. Lindbergh reported progress frequently by radio, beginning his messages "Lindbergh, pilot...
Philatelist Hind. No, I really hadn't time, but I have here the 1d British Guiana, for which I paid over £7,000. Even His Majesty the King of Great Britain personally congratulated me upon acquiring it.* Would you like...