Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Please note inclosed editorial from the Star & Herald, Panama, R. P. which ties onto your comment (TIME, March 21, p. 13) regarding the Panama Canal Zone as "one of the chief headquarters" of the international traffic in "white slaves." Control of this traffic at the Canal Zone comes under the Quarantine Officers who are just as diligent against "white slavers" as they are against yellow fever and bubonic plague, and the records at Cristobal show that last year (I quote from a note from the Quarantine Officer, Dr. C. A. Hearne) there were deported "26 modistes or modistas...
...landscapists, sculptors. The Institute's representatives on the new committee. include celebrated teachers aswell as practitioners-bristling little Paul P. Cret, whom students at the University of Pennsylvania regard as another Leonardo; able Everett V. Meeks, dean of fine arts at Yale; George W. Kelham, who supervised the Panama Exposition and builds for the University of California; Sidney Lovell of Chicago and J. Monroe Hewlett of Manhattan...
Last week President Coolidge talked and thought canals. Senator Walter E. Edge of New Jersey, Chairman of the Interoceanic Canals Committee of the Senate had, among others, recently looked inquisitively into the waters of the Panama Canal; he talked persuasively to the President, of the need for a Nicaragua canal, to cost between $500,000,000 and $1,000,000,000. As an economical alternative, he suggested a new $125,000,000 lock for the Panama Canal.* The President, it was reported, would think about it. Meanwhile, the Navy demonstrated to their own satisfaction, once more, the vulnerability...
...Senator Edge's statement that another lock in the Panama Canal or a new canal through Nicaragua will soon be necessary, is flatly contradicted by a recent report of the Senate Appropriations Committee which indicates that the Panama Canal is now operating at less than half capacity and that the tonnage passing through it has never approached the peak reached...
...Famed during the World War as one of the "mystery ships" of the Dover patrol; now flying the flag of Panama...