Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Diego April 9. hustling, pink-cheeked Admiral David Foote Sellers, its Commander-in-Chief, had put it through almost continuous strategic and tactical exercises. All the way down the Mexican coast it played at war games. A mimic attack had struck at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. Then, to everyone's surprise, Admiral Sellers had suddenly decided on a forced fleet march across Panama, putting his 111 vessels through the canal in the record time of 48 hr. (TIME, May 7). Climax to the maneuvers was Exercise M, a problem whose stake was control of the Caribbean...
Shortly afterward my eye fell on the two enclosed clippings from an old copy of the Panama American, "An Independent Daily Morning Newspaper." These two examples of "frank and progressive" journalism caused no little additional amusement, coming as two bits of printed evidence on top of the mass of occurrences I have witnessed personally in many different ports whenever "The Fleet's In." In spite of Admiral Rodman's indignation it is only too obvious that Artist Paul Cadmus' painting is truly depicted, not only on Riverside Drive, but wherever the fleet is on shore leave...
...clippings, from the same issue of the Panama American, reported: 1) The arrest of one U. S. sailor for setting fire to a prostitute's bed after she "rejected what she regarded as an 'immoral' proposition"; 2) The detention of another sailor for entering a room with a registered prostitute outside the restricted area...
...good bait: May 7, p. 16 on passage of the Fleet from the Pacific to the Atlantic: of warships ... streamed steadily westward through the Panama Canal...
While 15,000 bluejackets swarmed ashore at Colon to celebrate their delayed leave, the Tokyo Press, aware that all U. S. naval strategy centres around Panama Canal operations, sneered at "the American Fleet's failure," declared that "passage through the canal in 24 hr. has been proved impossible...