Word: inter-oceanic
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Cartoonist Art Young of Wisconsin, Chicago, Manhattan, Paris and Bethel, Conn., drew some-of-the-first daily political cartoons and the first colored news supplements in the U. S., for the oldtime Chicago Inter-Ocean...
...President then conjured up at length the investments of U. S. citizens in Nicaragua and the right purchased by the U. S. for $3,000,- 000 to build an inter-ocean canal across Nicaragua...
Significance. Aside from U. S. financial interests in Nicaragua which are considerable, the U. S. holds a perpetual permit to build an inter-ocean canal across the Nicaraguan isthmus which was purchased by the U. S. during the Taft Administration (1913). Throughout the past decade successive U. S. Administrations, of whatever party, have kept a detachment of Marines in Nicaragua until last year, when their withdrawal was followed immediately by the coup d' état of General Chamorro. The Nicaraguan Administrations upheld by the U. S. have apparently been obnoxious to a majority of Nicaraguans, but in upholding...
...paralysis. The friend of five Presidents-McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, four of whom are now dead-he started his career as a caterer, later selling the chain of restaurants, which he controlled, and entering the newspaper field in Chicago. He owned and edited at different times the Chicago Inter-Ocean, Times-Herald, Record-Herald, Evening Post. His services to the Republican cause brought him into contact with many a famed man, made it possible for him-for he never accepted an office-to become great by refusing greatness, notorious while shunning noitoriety. A genial, meagre, shrewd little...
...following periodicals have been placed on file: Boston Herald, New York Herald, New York Sun, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Inter-Ocean, Philadelphia Press, Boston Evening Transcript, Harper's Weekly, Frank Leslie's, Nation, Forum, Public Opinion...