Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy were in the habit of indulging in spectacles, it might well exhibit its efficiency and potency by assembling en masse for a stupendous steam through the Panama Canal. Imagine President Coolidge and Secretary Wilbur "silent on a peak in Darien," watching the flagship West Virginia poke its prow into the sun-kissed Pacific. Completed in 1924, at a cost of nearly $23,000,000, it is the last battleship which the U. S. can build until 1934, according to the Naval Limitations Pact agreed upon at the Washington Conference in 1923. The West Virginia, Colorado (the most expensive...
...system now reaches every important city and many an unimportant. But who knew that for centuries it has been possible to travel inland by boat from Rotterdam, climb the Rhine, get into the Danube and debouch upon the Black Sea? The key link is the Ludwig Canal, begun by Charlemagne 1,200 years ago. With 101 locks in 107 miles it climbs out of Bavaria through the clouds of the Frankischer Jura mountains and deposits you in Austria. . The German Consulate at London had never heard of it Dutchmen were dubious about its continued existence. But Skipper Farson...
...individually patronized, but have sought others in parts of their cities where they are not known. 2) At Guadalajara many self-styled devout Roman Catholics, imperfectly converted from paganism, are to be seen on their knees in streets praying to Xochimilco, the pagan god of Mexico City's canal district, imploring him to loose floods upon President Calles as a punishment for the President's disrespect toward the Virgin of Guadalupe...
...Cleveland, Dr. Charles Thwing, president-emeritus of Western Reserve University and national president of Phi Beta Kappa, assembled his effects and, with Mrs. Thwing, went on from Cleveland to his post of intellectual commander. He could accompany the cruise only as far as Los Angeles, via the Panama Canal, but planned to rejoin it in February in the Mediterranean. Meantime his duties would be performed by one or several of other executives embarking-Deans Albert K. Heckel of the University of Missouri, and George E. Howes of Williams College; Dr. William Haigh of Switzerland; Daniel Chase of New York State...
...everyone knows, there is the chapter of shorn Colombia, spunky Panama, and the big U. S. In 1903 Panama revolted from its mother-country Colombia, declared itself independent. Colombia accused President Roosevelt of aiding the revolutionaries because he wanted the Canal Zone. Indeed, the President who advocated the soft word and the big stick, was quoted as saying: "I took Panama." Colombia demanded an indemnity, which was promptly refused. A decade later, President Wilson negotiated a $25,000,000 indemnity treaty with Colombia, but the U. S. Senate refused to comply. Finally, in President Harding's administration, the Senate...