Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...military coup d'etat by Nicaragua's "strong man", General Somoza, brings the problem of Latin American policy again into the foreground. With the Pan-American Congress scheduled for the near future, with $13,000,000 investments and a ninety-year option on the Nicaragua canal route at stake, the delicate problem of recognition becomes of paramount interest, particularly since under the Central American treaty of peace and amity of 1923 we are unable to recognize a ruler who comes to power by a coup d'etat...
...view of the changed conditions caused by developments in the air, the question of strengthening Britain's defense of the Suez Canal against air attack will be considered in consultation with Egypt. . . . His Majesty's Government are responsible for the administration and government of Palestine in accordance with the terms of the [League] mandate, and intend to discharge their responsibility to the full. . . . No further statement appears necessary...
...majority of the artists were entirely unknown, uninspired, surprisingly competent. A bad start were the Hawaiian entries, except for John C. Young's painting of blue-white water foaming against rocks. Puerto Rico's N. Poy was even worse with a peon and green bananas. The Panama Canal Zone had a slightly superior cubic nude by Blanche Lupfer. The Virgin Islands scraped the show's low. Alaska was not represented...
...British Home Fleet entering the Mediterranean, but he did object to shots of British troopships going to the same place and to the Voice of Time's announcement: "British troops follow the fleet to the garrisons of Malta and Egypt. There is even talk of closing the Suez Canal." Censor Wilkinson found no fault with a long sequence depicting the manner in which the League of Nations Union had polled more people than had ever voted for a British party, to discover that 11,000,000 were for the League, 10,000,000 were in favor of supporting...
...limped along under the jury-rig of a receivership, with able General Manager Robert H. Clagett keeping a tight grip on the helm. Last week when Roy N. Lotspeich, socialite president of Knoxville's big Appalachian Mills Co., came forward with $450,000, for which New Orleans' Canal Bank & Trust Co. turned over the paper's controlling interest, it was evident that the venerable Journal had once more sailed into calm publishing waters...