Word: canal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Lakes States v. the City of Chicago. Lawyer Charles Evans Hughes, a onetime member of the Supreme Court, had been appointed special master. His report upheld Chicago's right to withdraw water from Lake Michigan, at the expense of other lake levels, for its sewage canal. 2) A test case about the Ku Klux Klan-whether it is constitutional for States to require secret organizations to put their secrets on file. 3) A test case about Shriners-whether persons founding fraternal orders may closely copy or parody the names of established orders like the Ancient Arabic Order...
After leaving Santa Barbara, Captain Coleridge of H. M. S. Durban radioed to the Associated Press as he steamed toward the Panama Canal and Bermuda: "I should be obliged if you would note that all press reports concerning his Royal Highness Prince George during the visit are without foundation and are unauthorized." Seemingly this blanket statement was intended to smother an A. P. story that H. R. H. had split his trousers in Santa Barbara, while performing the "varsity drag...
Loomed, after the brief Egyptian visit, a 17-day sail from Alexandria through the Suez Canal and down the coast of Africa to Mombasa. For the sake of comfort on this sweltering voyage the British India Steam Navigation Co.'s S. S. Mali has been improved by ripping out the partitions dividing her six largest cabins and constructing instead two spacious, airy bedrooms and a sumptuous sitting room for Their Royal Highnesses...
...American Club at Paris last week entertained a twitterer-Lieut-Col. Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla. Many present had known him in the U. S. He had been a co-worker with the late Ferdinand de Lesseps on the first attempt to dig a Panama canal. That project (by the French Campagnie Universelle du Canal de Panama) failed and Capt. Bunau-Varilla tried to persuade the U. S. to build a sea-level canal along the surveyed route. That was 27 years ago. Four years ago he was again in the U. S. This time he wore a wooden stump...
With Sir Austen & Family sailed a valet, a detective and one Anne Strachey (Diane Chamberlain's companion). They were en route for California and Canada, via the Panama Canal...