Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only reference to his fame as an engineer) : "All these projects will probably require an expenditure of upwards of one billion dollars within the next four years. It comprises the largest engineering construction ever undertaken by any government. It involves three times the expenditure laid out upon the Panama Canal. It is justified by the growth, need and wealth of our country. The organization and administration of this construction is a responsibility of the first order. For it we must secure the utmost economy, honesty and skill. These works which will provide jobs for an army of men should...
...Florencio Harmodio Arosemena, a mechanical engineer, was elected President of Panama last week, thus perpetuating the regime of the Liberal party...
...electorate. Six days prior to the polling date, they cabled to U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, the last of several fruitless appeals for U.S. intervention, declaring that in the event of refusal "your excellency's desire for a pure and fair election in Panama is impossible to realize...
...Secretary Kellogg notified the Republic of Panama, where people were being jailed by scores last week in preparation for a presidential election, that the U. S. had received complaints, but perceived no disturbing evidence, as yet, of electoral frauds in Panama. As in the rase of Nicaragua, the U. S. has a treaty right to see that Panama has fair elections...
...liquor taxes of Colombia, like those of Panama (see above), have been pledged along with other taxes to repay $31,665,500 lent from the Liquor Prohibiting U. S. Therefore U. S. investors were vexed, last week, with Colombians who inaugurated a regime of partial prohibition...