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...quicker route for their flat-bottomed bateaux. During the war of 1812, Americans wrecked this canal. Later, when the Michigan legislature asked Congress to dig a new canal, Congress refused, relying on the judgment of Orator Henry Clay, who cried: "It is a work quite beyond the remotest settlement of the United States-if not the moon...
...B2H2), a full-dress debate on the U.S. postwar position was unthinkable. The B2H2 resolution is the most specific of all postwar resolutions (36 to date) before Congress: it calls on the U.S. to take the initiative in forming a United Nations organization to set up machinery for peaceful settlement of disputes between nations and establish a United Nations police force to stop future aggression. Texas' Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, stuffed B2H2 into his pigeonhole...
...week eating out ain't hay (although the food available may be), especially since officers pay food bills at Cowie regardless. Incidentally, bills for "Rental and Subsistence, Harvard" will probably be in the mails today and individual settlement soon thereafter will probably be the word on that...
...turn had taken violent exception to the way Ecuador was being run. Galo, the eldest, defied Quito's Police Minister. Captain Leonidas, the second brother, paced a Garcia Moreno cell, restive from a year's political imprisonment for leading an armed revolt protesting the Peru-Ecuador border settlement (TIME, Aug. 17). Lieut. Jose Maria ("Pepe"), the youngest, refused to return to political confinement after attending his uncle's funeral, barricaded himself in Galo's house and dared authorities to come...
...Ickes stop meddling. To them the first, most important thing was the principle that WLB should not be bypassed. To Ickes the job was to get coal mined. WLBsters threatened to resign en masse. Faced with a choice of jettisoning his own Labor Board or of getting a quick settlement (in which Lewis might seem to win), Franklin Roosevelt upheld...