Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representative Martin B. Madden of Illinois, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is a keen financier and wary junketeer. Since the adjournment of Congress he has traveled some 12,000 miles, visiting the Canal Zone, and in general "sticking his nose" into Government finances. In Panama he is said to have discovered a $7,000,000 surplus of the canal railroad, Government property, the books of which had never been audited by a Government auditor...
...expenses on the Leviathan's trial trip. He is expected to join Secretary of War Weeks on a tour of the Eastern Army posts in August. Already he has investigated the proposed new naval base at Alameda, Calif., reclamation projects in the West, and the needs of the Canal Zone in fortifications...
...Germany is summoned by the Allies to appear before the Court with reference to refusing to allow the British steamship Wimbledon to pass through the Kiel Canal. (Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles the Kiel Canal must remain open to all vessels of all nationalities at peace with Germany.) The Wimbledon was carrying munitions of war to Poland. Germany contends that to have allowed the ship to pass through the canal would have been an act prejudicial to her neutral attitude. The Allies maintain that a preliminary treaty of peace ending war between Poland and Russia was ratified...
From San Diego he will sail for home, via the Panama Canal and Porto Rico, and should complete his trip by Aug. 20 or thereabouts...
...John Weeks, wife of the Secretary of War, is convalescing from an attack of blood poisoning. After her sea voyage through the Panama Canal with the Secretary, she traveled directly to Chicago from San Francisco, while Mr. Weeks stopped in Utah to inspect army posts...