Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HELL BEYOND THE SEAS - Aage Krarup-Nielsen - Vanguard ($2.75). Ghosted account of life in the penal colony of French Guiana, illustrated by grisly photographs...
Back to French Guiana by his own choice sailed in high dudgeon last week Benjamin Ullmo, hailed by all France six months ago as a Second Dreyfus...
Citizen Ullmo showed not the slightest interest in Nurse Poirier. "What most strikes me," he declared as his parting shot on sailing back to French Guiana, ''is the formidable weakness of the world spiritually, the lowering of standards of conscience and even of intelligence since I was sent away 26 years ago. You have lost your sense of values. You take quantity for quality. You think size is greatness...
...five foreign countries with the greatest number of Harvard residents are Canada, 703; China, 360; France, 255; England, 252; and Japan, 224. Such countries as Algeria, British Guiana, Celebes, Iceland, Manchukuo and the Society Islands are included in this world-wide tabulation...
...using an underwater color photograph taken by U. S. Submarine Photographer John Ernest Williamson as decoration for a new airmail stamp. Should The Crown's presses break down when his new stamp was being printed, he might produce one or two stamps which would eventually rival the 1¢ British Guiana's value. But it seemed more likely that the new Bahamian stamps would retain only their nominal value despite the fact that the first batch of letters bearing the airmail stamps will be sent from the submerged Williamson "photosphere...