Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secret excavations in Central America by Peabody Museum archeologists which brought forth a fortune in gold were revealed yesterday by H. B. Roberts and Samuel K. Lothrop '15, who have been carrying on explorations in Panama for three years. The archeological finds were made in the burial grounds of an unknown Central American tribe and are largely in the form of personal ornaments. The chieftains of the tribe were buried in giant stone slabs, in which were piled gold trinkets, precious stone, and brilliantly painted pottery. Some of the gold ornaments were valued at 100 to 150 dollars apiece...
...list of the countries represented by Harvard and the students acting as delegates was released by James A. Wolff '35 of the League yesterday. Harvard will take the part of the United States, Peru, and Panama in the assembly of the league...
...Singer '34, Alvin M. Josephy '36, Herbert A. Fierst '35, Julian A. Wilhelm '35, and Thomas H. Quinn '36, will represent Peru; and Malcolm H. Hoffman '34, Henry Hemmendinger '35, George E. Edwards, Jr. 1G, David Mayer '36, Comstock Glaser '35, and Oscar H. Davis '34 will represent Panama at the convention...
Last week for the first time since the Panama Canal was opened to traffic on Aug. 15, 1914, a ship sank in the canal.* In Gatun Lake, half a mile south of the locks, the Dutch freighter Brion suddenly began to list badly, sank before she could be beached. All hands (23) were saved by canal launches...
...Panama. A great sheaf of snow-white lilies was President and Sra. Harmodio Arias' gift to Mrs. Hull when the Santa reached Panama City. In the Zone, one of the most heavily fortified districts in the world, Secretary Hull chose to talk about disarmament: "We cannot go too far or do too much in carrying this gospel to the uttermost parts of our lands. Slaughter by the outlawed means of armed conflict would be nothing less than murder and assassination...