Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clean-cut lot of Christian sailors who would never think of smuggling girls or women aboard ship, even as a "prank," especially after ten days of shore leave in the Gulf ports. Five years ago, when a seagoing girl was found on the battleship Arizona between New York and Panama, Secretary Wilbur was shocked, embarrassed, furious, and a dozen sailors were court-martialed. Though no announcement was made it was safe to say that last week, as in 1923, every U. S. Navy ship afloat was carefully searched to ascertain just how prevalent girl-stowing had become...
Senator Edge of New Jersey, seeking the President's support for a proposed survey of the Panama Canal and the often-discussed Nicaraguan canal route. Senator Edge assured President Coolidge that the capacity of the Panama Canal would be overtaxed within ten years...
Nevertheless, Eagles Davison and Fechet recommended doubling Panama's air defenses. Perhaps to hasten the passage of appropriations, they abandoned their plan to fly home along Peace-Dove Lindbergh's route through the Antilles. They returned as they had gone down, in long hops of their Loening amphibians to Managua, Vera Cruz, Tampico, Brownsville, Washington...
...world-wide reach of Sinclair Consolidated was flung out by the burly Destiny Man to Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama; to Angola, in Portuguese West Africa; to Russia. Sinclair's technique was to approach the government of a country with the flyleaf of his checkbook showing. "Men mumble but money talks," is an old oil adage. He would ask for a franchise to prospect for petroleum. If he found some, the government could have it all, except for a million or so acres. Sinclair always got his acres along the coast, where his tank-ships could...
Since 1925 Colonel Morrow has been quietly presiding over his commission, having previously been Governor of the Panama Canal Zone. A close lipped Army career man, he would neither affirm nor deny, last week, reports that his commission is on the point of submitting its completed findings to President Coolidge, who acts, by request of Chile & Peru, as a gingerly umpire of the dispute...