Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stenographer only. ¶ Rev. Charles R. Erdman of the Princeton Theological Seminary occupied the pulpit of the little Presbyterian Church at Saranac Lake, N. Y., whither came the President and Mrs. Coolidge, Frank W. Stearns, Senator Cameron of Arizona. ¶ Last December soldiers in the barracks at Culebra, Panama Canal Zone, watched horrified while one Ramon Cordero, Porto Rican native in the U. S. army, shot, killed Corporal Antonio Cruzalso. Last week, following President Coolidge's approval of his sentence, Cordero was hanged by the neck until dead. ¶ Three years ago a long, black funeral train crossed this...
...Senate finally got farm relief out of the way (see FARMERS), only to see rivers-and-harbors swell to proportions more formidable than ever. The bill provided approximately a $50,000,000 mass of miscellaneous moneys for dredging creeks, bayous, inlets in many states; building bridges; buying canals; and most important of all, for deepening the Illinois River near Chicago to let lake steamers pass down to the Mississippi and Gulf of Mexico. The language of the bill had the effect of legalizing previous diversions of Great Lakes water by Chicago through its drainage canal out of Lake Michigan...
Rivers and Harbors. The House passed a bill for improvement of rivers and harbors but it contains a number of controversial features, purchase of the Cape Cod Canal, deepening of the Illinois and of the Missouri Rivers, which will delay if not prohibit its passage by the Senate at this session...
While the State and War Departments were busy preparing their replies to the request of the Senate to tell what the Administration knew of British mining concessions obtained in Panama near the Canal (TIME, June 14), newspaper men in London obtained an interview. The interview was with Duncan E. Alves, chairman of the Panama Corporation, Ltd., the company which was formed to exploit the concessions...
...Retention of the Sudan ; 2) Maintenance of a British Army of Occupation to protect the Suez Canal ; 3) British protection of Egypt against foreign aggression ; 4) British protection of foreign interests and citizens in Egypt...