Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from the C.C.C. the relief work of the administration has been wretchedly handled. Projects started in haste have been dropped like burning coals. Money has poured into valueless jobs like water over a dam. The Florida canal has been openly repudiated in Congress, leaving the laborers to wonder where their next few dollars are coming from. Cash must be spent on a certain day or not at all. Robert Moses must tear down the Casino by June thirtieth, or leave it forever a blight on the landscape of Central Park...
...results of the Spanish-American War in 1898; the methods used by Theodore Roosevelt to get a route for the Panama Canal in 1903; Coolidge's "dollar diplomacy"; and the armed intervention of the marines in Nicaragua:--these actual events have exuded a strong smell of garlic unabated by any suave "big brother" sweetening...
...Hemisphere; and he showed his sincerity in March by forming a pact with Panama whereby the United States stopped being an officious guardian. The treaty even apologized for the devaluated dollar, by giving that much-abused republic the benefit of the doubt on the exchange in respect to the canal tolls...
...making no overt campaign for the Presidency, Senator Arthur Vandenberg in recent weeks has managed to keep himself in the Congressional spotlight with his subtle attacks on the New Deal. Fortnight ago this Michigan Republican finally succeeded in beating efforts to appropriate money for the Florida ship canal (TIME, March 30). Last week he popped up with a modest resolution asking AAA to report the names of all farmers who received more than $10,000 a year in benefit payments...
...fell at the first jump the second time round, broke his neck, had to be shot. At odds of 100-to-1, Lord Mildmay's stallion Davy Jones took the lead from the start and held it the second time around, over Becher's Brook, around the Canal Turn and past Valentine's Brook. There were two jumps left before the finish...