Word: key
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks the Senate fulfilled expectations by the listlessness of its debate. Because Chairman Key Pittman of the Foreign Relations Committee was too lukewarm to do a job that rightfully belonged to him, Majority Floor Leader Joseph T. Robinson had to take over Ad- ministration sponsorship of the World Court resolution. This proved an initial handicap because Senator Robinson, though a loud and earnest debater, is no expert on foreign affairs. Meanwhile the case against the Court was presented by Senate veterans who had learned their parts by heart in the debate of 1926. But the Administration entered the final weekend...
...launched its victorious, land-grabbing war with Mexico. Feeling its imperial oats, the young nation decided to build a magnificent fortress, a Gibraltar of America. Chosen as a good site was a desolate coral reef 65 mi. off Key West in the Gulf of Mexico. The reef, named Dry Tortugas by Ponce de Leon because it swarmed with turtles, consisted of ten keys-strung ten miles east & west. With tremendous enthusiasm and at tremendous cost the Government began to transport plaster, mortar, bricks from the North. Slowly on 25-acre Garden Key rose Fort Jefferson-barracks for six companies...
...Gunboats were ordered away, ships were afraid to stop. When the fort physician died Dr. Mudd volunteered his services. Day & night in a hospital where the thermometer stood at 104 he worked heroically among delirious, vomiting patients. Men died by the score and were hastily dumped on nearby Bird Key. "No more respect is shown the dead," wrote Dr. Mudd, "than to the putrid remains of a dead...
...Tortugas there now lives permanently only the lighthouse crew at Loggerhead Key. The Carnegie Marine Biological Station on Loggerhead is occupied about three months of the year. During bird-breeding season a keeper or two go out to Bird Key. Fort Jefferson is a deserted ruin. The Navy took it over during the Spanish-American War, spent $800,000 on a coaling station and other improvements, abandoned it. Since then Cuban and U. S. fishermen have carried away everything of value. The moat and some of the brickwork are intact but the rest is a shambles of stripped roofs, crumbled...
Eventually the pair got down to the business of eating from the top of the chest. But if the wife was nervous she kept it bravely from the audience. Finally she said "If you'll excuse," handed the Pasha the key to the chest and swept off to bed. The Pasha wanted a cigaret but his lighter failed him. So he listened to a flute which was supposed to be a nightingale, then summoned a servant who helped him lug the suspicious box into the garden, there dig a grave...