Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon as the ship's anchor dropped, the President was off in a small boat to survey the island's shores and to fish...
Thus one day last week did Franklin Roosevelt, who has often told correspondents what to write, seize an opportunity to report on himself. His cruiser, U. S. S. Houston lay anchored off Albemarle Island, largest of Ecuador's twelve-island Galapagos group...
...Charles Island they took ashore gifts (food, medicine, newspapers, magazines) from the Senior Shellback to Heinz Wittmer & family, Mr. & Mrs. Elmir A. Conway of California and five Ecuadorian Indians who constitute the island's population...
...when the President himself did nothing of interest at Galapagos. The official news report from the Houston announced that landing parties tried to pump the settlers about Baroness Eloise Wehrborn, the queer German woman who. wearing silk panties and a pearl-handled revolver, sought to "rule" the island several years ago until she and her retinue of young males came to mysterious ends. The settlers would not talk, and the whereabouts of the Baroness have been unknown for four years...
Copy of a higher grade was made at James Island, where historically-minded Franklin Roosevelt, poring over Commander David Porter's Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean (1813), ordered a search (unsuccessful) for the grave of Lieut. John S. Cowan of Porter's frigate Essex, who died there in a pistol duel...