Word: canal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other day Senator Lodge received a timely letter from the Lieutenant-Governor of the state suggesting that a resolution be introduced in Congress to change the name of the Panama Canal to the Roosevelt Canal in commemoration of the late Theodore Roosevelt. The idea of such a memorial is excellent; as the Governor expresses it is "to link together for all time the name of this great American leader with the great American contribution to the world...
...would have been an indefinite duration of bloodshed and devastation through the whole extent of the Isthmus. It was a time to act and not to theorize. As the late President said so cogently himself--"I had to act quickly and I did--and we are now building the canal." Yes, and today that greatest of engineering feats is a fait accompli. This almost insuperable accomplishment is one of the great monuments of President Roosevelt's Administration and one of the least things we can do in his memory is to give the great waterway his great name...
...Kaiser believed that none of these boats would all under the Stars and Stripes for many a year. He had not reckoned on our engineers. In a short time the German liners were ready to go to sea, the Vaterland was taken on a trip to the Panama Canal and was overhauled there, and now the entire repatriated fleet has landed its thousands of troops in France...
That monstrous doctrine would destroy Belgium and cripple France. It involves internationalization of the Suez Canal, as frankly avowed by the Naval League champions, so that German submarines might make use of it also in war. It means that the military control of the Panama Canal would be given over to Germany...
...compiled by the University Register, shows Massachusetts leading all other states by more than 500 per cent. New York is second, Ohio third and Pennsylvania fourth. Every state in the Union, with the exception of Mississippi and Wyoming, is represented in the list, as well as Alaska, the Canal Zone, the District of Columbia, the Territory of Hawaii and Porto Rico. The total for the University is 2,998, as opposed to 4,451 last year...