Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Correspondents drew from a member of the U. S. delegation, who withheld his name, the statement that when Edward of Wales, and later the Duke of York passed through the Panama Canal on British warships, careful computations of the water displaced proved their ships to be nearly 12% overweight...
Then spoke Secretary Dwight F. Davis, who said he came at the request of the President and to indicate the Administration's sympathy with flood sufferers. "The Mississippi can and must be controlled," said Secretary Davis. "The nation whose engineers built the Panama Canal despite seemingly insuperable obstacles can solve the . . . problem of flood control." He added that the solution was a matter for the next session of Congress to determine...
...submitted their usual sheaf of written questions, most of them devoted to the O'Shea statement. Going through the bundle of queries, the successor to the White House Spokesman* answered one concerning the appointment of certain judges, one concerning the progress of flood relief, one concerning a treaty with Panama which settled the matter of competition between Panama merchants and U. S. Government stores in the Canal strip. He then bade the correspondents farewell...
...Davis-Mormon, cowpuncher, high in his class at Annapolis, intrepid minelayer and minesweeper in the North Sea, Harvard law student, with a pretty wife and a little son, Noel Jr.; and To Stanton Hall Wooster-Connecticut Yankee, Yale student and Annapolis graduate, once lost in a wrecked plane in Panama jungles, one of the U. S. Navy's most skilled pilots, with no living relatives except an aunt and an uncle -many a tribute was paid. Said Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, whose own wrist was broken (TIME, April 25) when the New York-to-Paris Fokker monoplane America turned...
...confused with the famed propaganda despatch of the A. P. on Nov. 17, which said: "The specter of a Mexican-fostered Bolshevist hegemony intervening between the United States and the Panama Canal has thrust itself into American-Mexican relations, already strained...