Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Piped ashore from the Houston at Balboa last week, Franklin Roosevelt for the second time in his Administration set foot in the Panama Canal Zone. Refreshed by a fortnight at sea, the President proceeded to turn on his most charmful smile. Taken out twelve miles through the jungle to see the new $13,000,000 Madden Dam on the Chagres River, completed since Mr. Roosevelt's westward passage across the Isthmus last year and calculated to supplement the Canal's water supply by 22 billion cubic feet, he graciously remarked: "When you compare the two, you wouldn...
...eight years later been put in charge of important harbor improvements at Savannah. To professional distinction he added the social prestige of marriage to the daughter of a rich onetime business associate of the Vanderbilts. In 1897 President McKinley appointed him Engineers' Corps representative on the American Canal Commission and military attache at the Court of St. James's. Few weeks later his career was ended abruptly by a scandal which humiliated the Army, filled the Press for months...
Three factors were responsible for his conviction. Oldster Carter told the Senator. One was his Savannah successor's jealousy of his social success. Another was the fact that he had favored construction of a canal through Panama, thus incurring the wrath of New York's onetime Senator Warner Miller, head of the Maritime Canal Co. of Nicaragua. Lastly, said he, the late, great Republican Boss Mark Hanna had persuaded President McKinley that if he failed to approve Carter's conviction he would, in the coming election, lose Ohio and the Presidency to Admiral Dewey...
...realisation of native values in American life. Many plays definitely American were produced successfully, and the four conspicuous ones are reproduced by Mr. Mantle. Future historians of the drama will look back with interest on poet Maxwell Anderson's "Valley Forge" and Mare Connelly's colorful picture of Eric Canal life, "The Farmer Takes A Wife." America today is well represented by Sherwood's romantic western comedy, "The Petrified Forest," and by young Odet's panorama of life among the lowly in New York City, "Awake And Sing." Then there is the powerful and biting "The Children's Hour," which...
...Back to Chicago last week from a six-month stay in the Panama Canal Zone went skeptical, inquisitive Professor Alfred Edwards Emerson, University of Chicago zoologist, scornfully denying that he and his family had suffered tropical discomfort. Predictions of insecticide manufacturers that tropical termites will direfully invade the U. S. are absurd, said he, because 1) most of the U. S. is too cold, and 2) fossil termites 30,000,000 years old show close kinship to species now living, so that if these oldtimers could have invaded the U. S., they would have done so long...