Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become bored. Not content with assuming the financial obligations of half the world, the Germans have decided to dig a little deeper into their pockets and their Fatherland. Having stumbled on an odd billion or so (marks not dollars), they have, according to an Associated. Press dispatch, organized a canal corporation at Munich to construct a two thousand mile waterway by joining the Rhine, the Main and the Danube. The engineering details will tax the German imagination as much as the Allied Reparation Demands will tax their pocket books; but there seems to be as little worry about...
...greatest achievement of the Roosevelt administration was undoubtedly the building of the Panama Canal. For over fifty years we had been guaranteed open transit across the Isthmus, but had been forced repeatedly to intervene, often at the request of Columbia, who owned Panama, in order to protect our interests there. After the failure of the French canal project, the United States undertook the task of the construction of the water route across the continent. As long as there was a possibility that the United States would locate operations in Nicaragua, the Colombian government favored the Panama plan. But after...
...Bogota Treaty promises the South American republic twenty-five million dollars, together with certain other concessions as an indemnity for any injury which Colombia might have suffered through the loss of Panama and the building of the Panama canal. The attempt of the present Administration to obtain its immediate ratification recently failed and the Roosevelt senators have served notice on President Harding that they would not allow the treaty to go to vote until the people had a chance to read and hear the question debated in the senate...
...give really good service. There should also be good and fast direct steamers from our Pacific Coast to Australia and to the west coast of South America. From our cast coast we should be able to go to both coasts of South America, through the Mediterranean and the Sucz Canal to the Orient, and to various ports in Europe. The United Fruit Company is able to give an excellent, if not rapid, service to the countries in which it operates, mostly Central America, by reason of the profitable nature of its business other than shipping...
...candidates were syndicated and published in practically every city in the United States. He attended both conventions, and travelled all over the country with Governor Cox and Senator Harding on their stumping tours. He accompanied Senator Harding on his recent vacation trip to the South and the Panama Canal, and knows the next President and his plans as only a very few of his closest friends do. He has also been in close relations with President Wilson...