Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London Daily Mail correspondent sent news even more reassuring: "There are no Italian troops whatever in Albania." Yet, such is the persistence of the war rumor (TIME, Jan. 10) that major statesmen in the chief European capitals found time to inform correspondents last week that Albania is "a perilous zone ... a looming danger . . . portent . . . menace...
...less a personage than Frank W. Stearns, intimate friend and adviser of the President. He looked inquiringly into the limpid water of the canal, sailed for Manhattan after a two-day visit. In the near distance, Vice President Dawes hovered; from Havana he set sail for the canal zone. From Manhattan Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, sailed for Porto Rico; he will arrive to inspect the canal just as General Dawes ends his brief visit. What Mr. Stearns and the Congressmen saw, what Vice President Dawes a,nd Secretary Davis expect to see, few could guess. But many knowing...
...Annual report of the League of Nations "white slavery" Committee* revealed that the Panama Canal Zone is now one of the chief headquarters of this international traffic. Portugal was stigmatized because the Portuguese law still allows girls as young as 14 years to be registered and licensed. The Mediterranean lands are declared the chief source of "white slaves," and Latin America is the principal consumer region. During the reading of the Committee's report-signed by its U. S. Chairman, William F. Snow-a member of the French delegation rose to protest the Committee's translation of tenanci...
...stamped yellow fever out of the Panama Canal Zone...
This adventurer has sailed to many of the most remote parts of the world. He was Captain of Perry's famous Polar ship, the Roosevelt; he followed the dogsleds out over the Polar zone to within 100 miles of the Pole itself. Again, he sailed as Commander of the Karluk of the Canadian Arctic expedition, and, when that ship met the perils of floating Ice, it was Bartlett's prompt action that kept the party alive. Four men went off into the bitter Polar night and were never heard of again. Captain Bartlett marched across the floes to the coast...