Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More interesting was the case of Rear Admiral Brumby, on whose behalf it was contended that he had not been technically made a defendant in the trial and that the equivocal findings did not justify censuring him. While the subject of this discussion steamed out of Balboa, Panama, on his flagship, the cruiser Camden, to oversee Control Force maneuvers at the Perlas Islands last week, observers studied the court of inquiry's alleged paradox to see why it should have puzzled the Navy Department...
...watchers at Nassau, British Bahamas, thought that they saw her bulk. Then she was a little south of Cuba, then off Jamaica. The trade winds fanned her ahead at a 90 m. p. h. scoot, and at last she, the airship Los Angeles, was at her goal, France Field, Panama Canal Zone. Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Rosendahl had put his airboat across 2,265 miles in 40 hours, her longest non-stop flight since she left Germany (TIME...
...Panama facing a pretty girl and a cold quart of wine...
...public committees to closed and secret subcommittees. With the consequent choking off of oratory, there ensued a modest modicum of progress: ¶ The text of a Pan-American Aviation Treaty was drafted. A vital clause confirms to the U. S. a right to make treaties with the Republic of Panama in such fashion as to exclude foreign air snoopers from the vicinity of the Canal. The treaty as a whole sponsors the "establishment and operation of practicable inter-American aerial lines and terminals...
...make no secret of our desire to control the Panama Canal in inter-American relations. The United States does not want a provision that might jeopardize our communications, east, west, north, south, in any attack from the air." ¶ The ambitious project of founding a "Pan-American League of Nations" by endowing the Pan-American Union- with political powers was sacked in subcommittee and finally in committee by an adverse vote in the ratio of two to one. ¶ The Conference solemnly and gallantly assembled to hear speeches in behalf of Pan-American womanhood...