Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tooks went to Washington, called at the office of the Pan American Highway Confederation, asked to see Director Stephen James. He and Director James had a set-to. At last Director James gave up, wrote this letter of introduction to a Panama friend...
...next summer he was back. At once he was arrested as a spy by Nazi-conscious Panama police. After eight days in a foul jail, he was freed and darted south into the brush. Three weeks later he emerged from the jungle at the Colombian border. Having done the impossible, he presented his notes and films to the Highway officers, returned to his classroom. As reward he asked nothing, and got it. Last week plans were going ahead for preliminary surveys of the Panama-Colombia link...
There is no other weekly newspaper in America which in one short year has achieved so many kudos as the Panama Coast Artillery News. Last week, about to celebrate its first anniversary, the News had on hand congratulations from the President of the U.S., the President of Panama, Secretary Stimson, Chief of Staff Marshall, Comedians Lew Lehr and Eddie Cantor (Lehr: "Monkeys is the craziest people and so is the editorial staff of the P.C.A. News...
...monkeys was no figure of speech. One afternoon last month an anteater, a monkey and the editor of the News occupied the same office. This cozy spectacle did not confuse readers who dropped into the News office at Quarry Heights, the U.S. Army's headquarters in the Panama Canal Zone. Old friends of the editor, Master Sergeant Clay Doster, had no trouble whatever in identifying...
Editor Doster, who was wounded in World War I, and holds several decorations, knows how to buck up the morale of the men in the remote, hard-driven Panama Coast Artillery Command (TIME, MAY 26). He puts on an act - every day in person, once a week in the lively, mimeographed pages of the News. The monkey and the anteater are parts of the act. So is his official pseudonym in the News: El Toro Ferdiliza. And so are the screwy lines which stud Editor Doster's paper (OUR EDITORIAL POLICY: SLAPHAPPY. OUR MOTTO: "Blessed be he who bloweth...