Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the radioed permission of Costa Rica's President León Cortés Castro. On his fourth visit* to the peaceful blue waters that lick Cocos' shores the President was still only after fish; still had only meagre fisherman's luck. Back in Panama the natives were swearing by the Roosevelt luck (he arrived on Feb. 18; No. 18 turned up in the lottery); out in the Pacific he was most likely swearing at it. Score reported at week's end: one blue crevally, one amberjack, two small fish, one broken line, three bait...
...Smith, Iowa's Gillette, Alabama's John Bankhead, issued statements ranging from plaintive pleading to desperate threats. Saturday Congress had stopped even pretending to keep its mind on its work, cocked an ear to Springfield, Ill., kept an eye on the ticker for a flash from the Panama Canal Zone...
...Twenty-one American republics at the Panama conference adopted the startling proposal...
...Close the Panama Canal to belligerent warships...
...Ratify measures adopted ty the Pan-American conference at Panama...