Word: rican
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West Point. Then he went to Cincinnati, helped adjust some harnesses to the Ohio River. Similar river work on the Tennessee (Muscle Shoals Canal) and a canal near Chattanooga helped him make friends with dams, sluices, locks. Through the Spanish War he served as Chief Engineer in the Porto Rican Army. After planning forts near Newport he joined the General Staff in Washington, where his abilities caught the tiny, twinkling eyes of William Howard Taft. Mr. Taft spoke of him to President Roosevelt. President Roosevelt ordered him to Panama to cut a waterway from the Atlantic to the Pacific...
Signers of the appeal were President Antonio Barcelo of the Porto Rican Senate and Speaker of the House José Tous Soto. Cabled they: "Ours is the only Spanish-American country whose voice is not heard in Havana during the Pan-American Conference. . . . Justice, nothing but, justice, is what we ask as citizens of America, as faithful Christians and as children of Almighty God, who gave to us the same inalienable rights which your great republic knew how to invoke when declaring for independence at the memorable Philadelphia Convention...
...Louis was trundled into a specially built barbed wire cage. Speeches. He attended the New Year's Ball, postponed from Jan. 1 in his honor. By official decree the champagne tax was removed, slicing its price to $2.50 a bottle, guaranteeing one of the gayest nights in Costa Rican chronicles...
...must to all men, Death came last week to Saad Zaghlul Pasha,* 66, onetime Prime Minister of Egypt, leader of the Nationalistic Party, most potent figure of contemporary Egypt. Funeral. Under a blistering Af- rican sun, the Zaghlul funeral procession wended its way through the streets of Cairo to the Imam-Yhafel Mosque. At its head marched mournful bands, laborites with lazily wagging flags and banners. Next came political groups, army units, the coffin covered with a silk Egyptian flag on a gun carriage. Some 4,000 official mourners, a body of Freemasons and mounted police constituted the rear...
...Costa Rican public freely and without interference from my Government has already carried out a sumptuous manifestation of sympathy for Dr. Sacasa...