Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lost works included drawings, etchings, zinc and copper plates by Pennell; all the oil paintings he ever made; all the prints of his famous Panama Canal series and the original drawings for various Henry James, Irving and Howells books; rare editions and presentation copies of Stevenson, Kipling and others; drawings by Aubrey Beardsley and various pre-Raphaelites; Mrs. Pennell's unique collection of books on cookery. Fortunately the Pennells' fine collection of Whistleriana had previously been shipped to America. It is now in the Library of Congress, to which they had also presented much of the destroyed collection...
...their new route, the first regular service of its kind in existence, the seven circumnavigators will sail from San Francisco via Japan, China, the Philippines, Java, Straits Settlements, Singapore, India, Suez, Egypt, Mediterranean ports, New York, the Panama Canal to San Francisco again. They will fly the American flag, and the Dollar Line guarantees their operation for at least five years. The sale price will not be announced until the contracts are sealed and delivered...
...have not outgrown the necessity, in justice to ourselves and without injustice to others, of safeguarding our future peace and security. . . . New occasions require new applications of an old principle. . . . We could not yield to any foreign power the control of the Panama Canal or the approaches to it. ... So far as the region of the Caribbean Sea is concerned ... if we had no Monroe Doctrine we should have to create one. . . . " Our treatment of Cuba, Santo Domingo and Haiti has been designed "not to create, to preclude the necessity of intervention...
Germany said that such an interpretation of provision relating to the Kiel Canal would injure German sovereignty. The Court held that the canal had been dedicated permanently to the use of the world and that Germany, having accepted the said Kiel Canal provisions of the Versailles Treaty in the exercise of her sovereign rights, could not now say that such provisions were incompatible with her sovereignty...
This marks the end of the first case to be contested before the Court. The actions of the U. S. Government during the War in relation to the Panama Canal were cited as analogous cases...