Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ratified treaties with Canada, Panama, the Netherlands and France to aid in preventing the activities of liquor-smuggling vessels...
...Booth Bay Harbor, Maine, set sail yesterday from Booth Bay for Bermuda, the French West Indies, the Caribbean Sea and the coasts of South America. The romantic cruise is to last from five months to a year, and if all goes well, will include a trip through the Panama Canal and up to Los Angeles galore in Hallett and his companion, Henry Rowland of Washington, D. C., turn their 41-foot ketch toward home again...
...Warrant Officers 1,065 Enlisted Men 128,223 Total 140,943* Army Nurses 675 West Point Cadets 666 Contract Surgeons 30 Army Field Clerks 220 Quartermaster Field Clerks 167 Grand Total 142,701* The distribution of the Army was: Continental U.S. 104,286 Hawaii 13,096 Phillipines 11,808 Panama Canal Zone 8,880 China 977 Alaska 393 Europe (Graves Registration Service) 5 Military Attaches...
...Louisianian by birth, son of a Confederate captain of cavalry, he has lived with the Marine Corps through its growth and travails. During the Spanish War, he commanded the Marine Guard first on the Cincinnati, then on the Massachusetts. With 400 men, he camped in the Panama Canal Zone, in 1903-04, while Panama extracted her freedom from Colombia. In the Cuban revolution of 1912, he commanded the U. S. troops who pacified the district of Santiago. In 1914, he took part in the capture of Vera Cruz...
...season of reports-official, annual, Government reports-which is at its height during December of each year, was inaugurated by the appearance of the official report on the Panama Canal, rendered through the War Department by Governor Jay J. Morrow, who is just retiring. The report was, as usual, for the fiscal year-ended June 30, last. It showed an increase of traffic through the Canal of 38.7% over the previous year. A great part of this was due to large shipments of oil from California. Deducting all this temporary boom-oil, however, canal traffic increased 16.4%. Shipping tolls aggregated...