Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since last spring, when the Long machine and the New Orleans "Old Regular" Democratic organization swore a battle to the death, alarmists had predicted that Canal Street would run red with blood on primary day. A frightened citizens' committee at the last moment persuaded Senator Long to confine his troops to Jackson Barracks if Mayor Walmsley would keep his police in their station houses. Result: most peaceful election in years...
...torso of a dead gunman, punctured by 23 police bullets. Such journalistic antics were unknown on the sedate Journal while Luke Lea owned it. But with onetime Publisher Lea in a North Carolina prison, the newspaper's control has been vested in the remote, impersonal hands of New Orleans' Canal Bank & Trust Co. and the present titular owner, Nat G. Taylor, son of Tennessee's late Governor. Meanwhile the editorial staff has delighted in doing as it pleases. City Editor Minis Thomason not only wrote and signed the lead story of the killing of the gunman, but proudly printed...
Meantime the Krassin ploughed steadily down the Baltic, across the Atlantic, through the Panama Canal, up the Pacific Coast, through Bering Straits. Smaller (4,900 tons) than the luckless Chelyuskin (6,500 tons), it had special ice-breaking equipment which enabled it to crunch indomitably through the pack. When it put in at Wrangel last week the colonists, their belongings packed and their long exile over, shed tears of joy. Fifteen scientists went ashore to replace the departing six. Mme Semenchuk. wife of the new station chief, presented a bouquet to Mme Mineyev, wife of the retiring chief...
...included in the portfolio of colonies is the Canal Zone (governed by the Army for military reasons), Guam, American Samoa, Wake and Midway Islands (governed by the Navy for reasons of strategy), nor the Philippines whose freedom is around a ten-year corner...
That drizzly August noon was not such a day for a homecoming as the President had had a month earlier when he drove through the green fields of Maryland to Annapolis to board his ship for a vacation in Haiti, Puerto Rico, Colombia, the Canal Zone and Hawaii. When he departed he needed rest?and he got it. He hoped that, with the spotlight turned off Washington, the country would get a rest, too. But when he landed in Portland last week and was met by an anxious conclave including two members of his Cabinet and two of his White...