Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Weeks, wife of the Secretary of War, is convalescing from an attack of blood poisoning. After her sea voyage through the Panama Canal with the Secretary, she traveled directly to Chicago from San Francisco, while Mr. Weeks stopped in Utah to inspect army posts...
...months. Typhus and cholera, two of Russia's great plagues, have been almost stamped out, and trachoma, a third, has been placed largely under control. This last work is reminiscent of the magnificent fight against yellow fever waged by Walter Reed in Cuba and by General Gorgas in the Panama Caual Zone, and goes to prove, with theirs, that all great American victories abroad are not won by gunpowder or the diplomacy of capitalism...
...consequence many small things have been happening to dispel mutual hatred: a Union Club for Americans and Panamanians has been opened, and the ladies of Panama meet American army officers, and learn that all Americans are not ostentatious and moneyed " barbarians.'' Americans learn that lack of " pure Caucasian blood" does not necessarily imply inferiority or grossness...
...John South, American Minister to Panama, recently stopped at the cosmopolitan Hotel Central in Panama, instead of the American Tivoli Hotel in the Canal Zone, a thing no American of note had ever cared...
Rotary Clubs, composed of Americans and Panamanians have opened at Colon and Panama City...