Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime the bickerings of Republican Hoffman and Democrat Wilentz were filling the Press with charges and counter-charges which grew more bitter every day. When Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon took ship for Panama, Governor Hoffman threatened to have him brought back for questioning. Superintendent Schwarzkopf announced that purported representatives of the Governor had tampered with his State troopers, tried to make them admit that Hauptmann had-been framed. Governor Hoffman impugned the credibility of the chief state witnesses at the Hauptmann trial. Last fortnight he took a PWA wood expert to Hauptmann's home in The Bronx, emerged...
...results of the Spanish-American War in 1898; the methods used by Theodore Roosevelt to get a route for the Panama Canal in 1903; Coolidge's "dollar diplomacy"; and the armed intervention of the marines in Nicaragua:--these actual events have exuded a strong smell of garlic unabated by any suave "big brother" sweetening...
...Platt Amendment, which had given us a treaty right to intervene in Cuba. Finally, in February of this year, he proposed an Inter-American Conference to discuss means of consolidating the peace of the Western Hemisphere; and he showed his sincerity in March by forming a pact with Panama whereby the United States stopped being an officious guardian. The treaty even apologized for the devaluated dollar, by giving that much-abused republic the benefit of the doubt on the exchange in respect to the canal tolls...
...Ella," squiggled on the wrappers of some butter found in his car, was the U. S. Army trademark. Other witnesses disputed this testimony. Last week, "Ella" strode into court in the person of svelte, blonde Ella Anderson of Brooklyn. She admitted that she had met the Captain in Panama six years ago, that they had since become good friends. Of the supplies which the Captain was accused of having filched for her, "Ella" professed complete ignorance...
...Francisco one day last week churned the Panama Pacific Liner California, bound for Manhattan. Next day, when the ship put in at San Pedro, her 374 seamen refused to take her to sea again unless their pay was jacked from the Atlantic rate, under which they had signed on, to the Pacific rate, some $5 a month higher. While the officers talked of arresting the entire crew for mutiny, most of the 441 passengers settled down to await the dispute's outcome. A few voyagers, including onetime Dancer Adele Astaire and her husband Lord Charles Cavendish, started East...