Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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America's manner of acquiring the Panama Canal Zone has helped to make South American states suspicious of an expanding northern neighbor, and as a result, trade has declined. With the changed conditions it is highly expedient that the United States once more make clear her relations to her southern neighbors. Two courses lie open: either to assert baldly a policy of maintaining peace in South America or to treat them as "grown up sisters". Perhaps the latter plan would prove less troublesome. At any rate a new definition of relations is necessary...
...Manhattan dissension arose in the ranks of the Company's directors. Major General George Washington Goethals (Panama Canal constructor), Frederick S. Blackall, F. B. Potter, H. C. Sheridan, A. S. Robert severed their connection with the Chester Concession. Commander Arthur Chester, son of Admiral Chester who obtained the concession which bears his name from the Turkish Government, repudiated the management of the concern and said that the " false and misleading statements made by Colonel Clayton-Kennedy and his associates" were bringing ruin upon the project. The dispute arose because the directors could not agree as to the best methods...
...generation of Explorer Columbus: " The Chicago Daily Tribune alleged that its correspondent in Madrid asked me for a message to America on Columbus Day, that I replied: 'I wonder what Grandfather Christopher would think of America today. If he could cross the Atlantic on the great Leviathan, see Panama and other wonders of the American continent, he certainly would be thrilled...
...lost works included drawings, etchings, zinc and copper plates by Pennell; all the oil paintings he ever made; all the prints of his famous Panama Canal series and the original drawings for various Henry James, Irving and Howells books; rare editions and presentation copies of Stevenson, Kipling and others; drawings by Aubrey Beardsley and various pre-Raphaelites; Mrs. Pennell's unique collection of books on cookery. Fortunately the Pennells' fine collection of Whistleriana had previously been shipped to America. It is now in the Library of Congress, to which they had also presented much of the destroyed collection...
...their new route, the first regular service of its kind in existence, the seven circumnavigators will sail from San Francisco via Japan, China, the Philippines, Java, Straits Settlements, Singapore, India, Suez, Egypt, Mediterranean ports, New York, the Panama Canal to San Francisco again. They will fly the American flag, and the Dollar Line guarantees their operation for at least five years. The sale price will not be announced until the contracts are sealed and delivered...