Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matters of moment the United States delegation has already incurred the enmity of the other representatives. In the first matter, all the Pan-American delegates advocated the abolishment of United States policing of the Caribbean. The fear of the United States for an unprotected Panama Canal and Nicaraguan canal route essentially loomed, however, as a virtual demand that the controversy be disposed of in the traditional manner. The other dispute was over the intention of President Coolidge, at this session, to include under new immigration laws the countries of the New as well as of the Old World. Any such...
...Goethals built the Panama Canal...
First Civil Governor of the Canal Zone, acting Quartermaster General during the World War, a member of the War Industries Board, Major Gen. Goethals retired in 1919. He sat in a Wall Street Office and remodeled strange, stubborn places of the earth as a distinguished consulting engineer...
...Panama, last week, a reunion was in progress. Workers on the great Panama Canal had convened from distant places to recall the days when "The Colonel" moved mountains; to recall how he heard their complaints, helped marry them, fathered them for seven sweating years. From Manhattan came a telegram that "The Colonel," whose ill health had prohibited his passage to the reunion, had died...
Died. Major General George Washington Goethals, 69, builder of the Panama Canal...