Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indian Spring course one day last week when the most important event of his life occurred. Three thousand miles away in Coronado,. Calif, a gentleman who likes the Navy better than the Army suddenly took it into his head to send a telegram before sailing off for the Panama Canal. When the General returned to his red brick quarters on the banks of the Potomac, his wife danced up to tell him that Commander-in-Chief Franklin Delano Roosevelt had appointed General Craig Chief-of-Staff of the U. S. Army, vice General Douglas MacArthur...
...post had led him to compare that post's commander to Reichsführer Adolf Hitler. By direction of the court, Publisher Rounsevell was acquitted (TIME, Sept. 30). Last week Defendant Rounsevell went on trial again-this time for an editorial stating that the commanding general of the Canal Department was incompetent to investigate his subordinates. The prosecution demanded that an example be made to prevent "future sadistic libels." The jury agreed. When the court sentenced him to pay $500 or spend 90 days in jail, Publisher Rounsevell's face clouded. It brightened quickly when the court suspended...
...Service men. Together with Mrs. Roosevelt, a White House staff detachment twelve strong and an unusually heavy Secret Service detail, the Press was to accompany the President as far as San Diego. To take with him aboard the Houston on his cruise back East by way of the Panama Canal, the President had selected a pair of ill-assorted guests: PW Administrator Harold Le Clair Ickes and WP Administrator Harry Hopkins. Messrs. Ickes & Hopkins have for months been scrapping like a pair of tomcats over projects for which Federal relief money should or should not be spent (TIME, April...
...called Britain's continued Naval demonstration in the Mediterranean last week the world's greatest massing of sea power since the Battle of Jutland. From Gibraltar the colossal British war boats Hood and Renown had moved down last week to Alexandria within shooting distance of the Suez Canal, supported by 14 squadrons of British battle planes on the aircraft carriers Glorious and Courageous. At Aboukir. where Nelson routed Napoleon at the Battle of the Nile, arrived 170 more British war planes...
...fortnight with such words as: aha, ama, hep, aim, ani, pah. Aha, said Plaintiff Gillman, was either a sunken fence a religious service, or an exclamation. Ama was a wine vessel used in the early Christian Church, also a medical term for "an enlargement of the semicircular canal of the internal ear." Quoted from George Eliot's Daniel Deronda was Hep, a cry of the Crusaders, derived from the Latin for "Jerusalem is destroyed...