Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least munitions from Mexico. This has so alarmed even the supposedly impartial U. S. Associated Press that that organization headed one of its lengthiest despatches last week with the following sentence: "The spectre of a Mexican-fostered Bolshevist hegemony intervening between the United States and the Panama Canal has thrust itself into American-Mexican relations...
...Evans Hughes, sat in Washington last week as Special Master to hear the evidence asked for by the Supreme Court. The first group of states is seeking an injunction against Illinois and the Chicago Sanitary District to restrain them from taking water out of Lake Michigan with their Drainage Canal and sending it down the Mississippi River...
...Arguments. The first group of states, all of them bordering on the Great Lakes, objects to the diversion of water from Lake Michigan on the following grounds: 1) The Chicago Drainage Canal has reversed the courses of two rivers and disrupted the drainage system of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River; 2) It has lowered the water level of the Great Lakes, spoiled harbors, endangered shipping; 3) It has vexed Canada, who of course has a right to protest interference with the Great Lakes...
Illinois and the southern states contend: 1) That the Drainage Canal is necessary to the sanitary disposal of Chicago sewage; 2) That the stopping of the diversion would have little effect on the water-level of the Great Lakes; 3) That the Drainage Canal is a vital link in development of a St Lawrence-Great Lakes-Mississippi-Gulf of Mexico waterway which will be a commercial asset to both the U. S. and Canada...
...storm swept in from the subtle Mediterranean last week, struck between Genoa and Leghorn. For hours Italian shipping was buffeted. Many fishing smacks floundered. Viareggio and other resorts on the Italian Riviera were inundated. At last the storm veered overland through Tuscany and Emilia to Venice. There the Grand Canal rose until gondolas glided across the Piazza di San Marco-usually as dry as Fifth Avenue, and like that thoroughfare lined with shops de luxe. Venetian vendors of lace, glass and what not, bustled about in two feet of water, rescued floating show cases, were vexed...