Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President" Club of New Jersey-its members wearing six-inch red-white-and-blue buttons, "Coolidge Again"; Speaker Gillett of the House, introducing his nephew; Sir Robert Home; Charles D. Hilles, Republican leader in New York; Comptroller of the Currency Dawes and three Indianapolis bankers; Governor Morrow of the Canal Zone; Seifoulah Yousry Pasha (TIME, Jan. 21), Minister from Egypt, presenting his credentials. ¶ Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge attended a reception of the Congressional Club in their honor to the usual fanfare of trumpets and Hail to the Chief by the Marine Band. Mrs. Coolidge wore cloth of silver trimmed...
...ranking member for the Navy (coordinate with the Chief of Staff of the Army, General Pershing) on the Joint Board. To his desk will come the report of the umpires of the recent sham war at Panama (TIME, Jan. 28) in which the Pacific Fleet and the Panama Canal were "destroyed" or "rendered useless...
Admiral Eberle knows full well what the loss of the Panama Canal in war-time would mean. In 1898 he was aboard the Oregon on her famous run around the Horn to join Admiral Sampson against the Spanish fleet at Santiago, Cuba. Since then he has been twice around the world in the line of duty: once with the Atlantic Fleet on its circumnavigation in 1908, again in command of the gunboat Wheeling. Six months ago he was appointed Chief of Naval Operations. Now the umpires come to him with the verdict: "The Canal is wrecked; the fleet is wrecked?...
Admiral Robinson then ordered his battleships to sea and they steamed out of the harbor without waiting for the remainder of the fleet which was still in the Canal. But the umpires, Admiral Robert E. Coontz and Major General John L. Mines, ordered him back, declaring that his ships were disabled...
...ended the battle, with the U. S. Pacific fleet destroyed. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Hamilton V. Bryan, Admiral McCully's flag officer, disguised as a civilian with a cargo of candles, representing dynamite, penetrated canal guards and placed his explosives at important points, the control chamber of the Gatun locks, etc. He later disguised himself as a correspondent, chatted with Blue officers at their head- quarters, read papers on their desks, cut telephone wires at the Gatun headquarters. His exploit was discounted, however, because complete restrictions such as would be made in actual war-time were not placed on civilians...