Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ready to fight, or at least duel, for his sacred personal rights, the record shows that he also goes in heavily for hero worship. Since Bolívar's day, Latin Americans have tended to follow men rather than parties or principles. They call themselves Peronistas, Arnulfistas (in Panama), Ibañistas (in Chile). Most of their caudillos, their strong men, have come from the army. Currently, military men preside over eleven Latino governments. Instead of confining themselves to the job of defending their country, Latin American militarists are entrenched as "the only well-organized political party" in every...
...Press Association met in New York two years ago, Argentina's Peronistas have been trying to wreck it. They noisily protested that I.A.P.A. was "created by the United States to dominate newspapers in the Western Hemisphere." A fortnight ago, when I.A.P.A.'s eleven-nation board met in Panama, it passed a stinging resolution condemning Peron's seizure of La Prensa, Argentina's once-great independent newspaper. The board also drafted a newsprint-sharing plan to help Latin American publications, leaving Argentina out in the cold...
Your Feb. 25 article, "The General's General Store," gave me a great deal of pleasure, as I used to know General Wood very well vhen he and I were working on the Panama Canal construction ... He was friendly and well liked ... by his employees ... I have known for a long time that General Wood is, in fact, Sears, Roebuck, and that Sears, Roebuck is General Wood, and as such he has done as much for the U.S.A. as any other Derson presently active in national affairs...
After the job was done, he was sent to a fort in Montana, later was ordered to the Point as an instructor. But life there was too dull. Work was about to start on the Panama Canal, and Wood, scenting excitement and opportunity, got himself shifted to the job. A week after he arrived, yellow fever downed most of the Canal Commission's top men. Lieut. Wood, then 26, who had "no idea of letting myself come down with yellow fever," was put in charge of several hundred men to build barracks for 10,000 laborers...
...lobbies claim, a sectional issue. But it is sectional only in its harmful effects: it will hurt the coastal ports and the railroads that service them. It's benefits, however, would be national, not sectional. One has only to look at past "sectional" projects--the TVA, the Panama Canal, the Grand Coulee Dam--all of which, though they hurt local interests, benefitted the whole nation...