Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advance summary of Japan's rebuttal appeared the day before in the Tokyo Press. This summary recalled an embarrassing precedent: in setting up Manchukuo she did no more than Theodore Roosevelt did in sending Marines to help Panama's revolution against Colombia. Well circulated in the world Press, the Panama parallel was tactfully removed from the official text...
Exactly five years ago the U. S. State Department was denouncing Sacasa & Friends for trying to set up a "Bolshevist hegemony" menacing the Panama Canal. They were supposed to be financed by Mexico, which was also suspected of Bolshevist leanings...
...year, which it would have been convenient to have made earlier. The first of these was that her husband had no natural qualifications for the calling of vineyardist." So Mary went to work to support herself, got jobs in a boardinghouse, as teacher, actress, journalist, press-agent (for the Panama-Pacific Exposition). Finally she divorced Husband Wallace. Mary found she liked the Southwest, wrote about it in "all kinds" of books. Though she never got to Easy Street she was soon a familiar figure on Bigwig Boulevard. Some of her friends: the late Poet Sterling, the late Jack London, Herbert...
...meeting last Sunday, applications were filed by the various colleges for the countries which they desire to represent. Last year, the French, Siamese, and Chilean delegations were composed of Harvard men. The Harvard applications this year include Great Britain, Paraguay, Bolivia, Siam, China, Denmark, Australia, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Panama; three of these countries will probably be assigned to Harvard...
...years as "loafing about in my airplane," energetic Author-Adventurer Richard Halliburton was really keeping his nose pretty close to his chosen grindstone-publishable, lecturable adventure. Many and far-fetched have been fair-haired Mr. Halliburton's stunts: swimming the Hellespont, climbing Fujiyama, swimming the length of the Panama Canal (in many an installment), living on a West Indies island à la Robinson Crusoe. His books (The Royal Road to Romance, The Glorious Adventure, New Worlds to Conquer) have sold more than 250,000 copies, not counting $1 reprints. In his Wright-powered Stearman biplane, The Flying Carpet, piloted...