Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor James J. Walker, of Manhattan, was presented a bat by certain denizens of the Panama Canal Zone with the request that he give the bat to famed baseball player Babe Ruth. The bat, made out of a lignum-vitae railroad tie, was four ounces over weight. Babe Ruth last week in a Manhattan gymnasium boxed famed musician Paul Whiteman...
...1919?to Brazil; Jan. 1922?Antwerp, thence to South Africa; Dec. 1923?World Tour. (New York. Tokyo, Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Naples and home); Dec. 1924?Cuba: May 1925?Italy; Jan. 1926?Yucatan (to study Mayans); Jan. 1927?South America (Bolivia, Montevideo, Argentina, etc.); Jan. 1928? Panama. Salvador, Cuba, Guatemala; Aug. 1928 ?Europe; Jan. 1929?Switzerland...
...What controversy ensued between the United States and Panama at the Pan-American economic conference...
Pilot Becker, ill, was quarantined in Port-au-Prince. The rest went to Panama, inspected submarine bases, game preserves, laboratories, spied on the canal from the sky. After ten days Pilot Becker, convalescent, joined his companions in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He flew from Port-au-Prince in 90 minutes. The others motored the same distance in nine hours. At the capitol they were wined and dined by President Horacio Vasquez. Later Daughter Alicia went bathing, kicked a sea porcupine which retaliated with a dozen barbs to the foot. A native Indian shaman extracted most of them with...
...make Washington, not Florida, the journey's end. Inasmuch as most of the Utah's personnel live closer to Hampton Roads than to Key West, the change meant that many of them could see wives, families, friends again, before departing on a three months cruise to Panama. It was with joyous tones that some 1,000 gobs gathered on the quarterdeck and sang for their passengers, "Are You Lonesome Tonight" and "Let Me Call You Sweetheart...