Word: canalizes
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Certainly President Wilson demanded his recall, certainly the French accused him of "spying'' in the Netherlands in 1916. But the formal U. S. indictment charging Franz von Papen with fomenting sabotage and attempts to blow up Canada's Welland Canal was quashed early this year, along with a batch of other Wartime indictments. Evidence against von Papen was supplied chiefly by British operatives, perhaps not above crediting falsehoods against a German in time of war. What most aroused U. S. public opinion at the time was the revelation that Franz von Papen once wrote a private letter in which...
...GERMAN CHANCELLOR could not deny last week that Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen speaks with a soft intonation, sits for minutes at a time pensively fondling the top of his cane and appears to the casual eye incapable of plotting in 1915 to blow up Canada's Weiland Canal...
...urgent request of President Wilson. Very likely Der Feldmarschall was too busy in April 1916 trying to win the War to read of the U. S. indictment charging Military Attaché von Papen of the Imperial German Embassy in Washington with conspiracy to blow up Canada's Welland Canal...
...purchased from the Government at a total cost of approximately $400,000, and under easy credit terms, a fleet of eight vessels estimated to have cost the Government in the neighborhood of $8,000,000. These ships are now engaged from the Pacific Northwest and California via the Panama Canal to Porto Rico and Buenos Aires, principally for the purpose of marketing lumber. This firm was thus granted distinct monopolistic privileges by the Government in the marketing of lumber in Porto Rico and Argentine, and accordingly proceeded to "squeeze out" of these markets any competing American firms who were left...
Died. James Lyle Mackay, first Earl of Inchcape, 79, British banking & shipping tycoon, board chairman of famed Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., vice president of Suez Canal Co.; after a general breakdown; aboard his yacht Rover, off Monte Carlo. His family withheld the news of his death until the London Stock Exchange closed. A poor Scottish boy, he rose to wealth & power in Indian trading firms. Branching out into Far Eastern shipping, Lord Inchcape became an authority on Oriental trade, negotiated Britain's basic commercial treaty with China in 1902. His daughter Elsie was lost in 1928 when...