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Goethals Boom Prompts 1916 Presidential Talk
A Washington dispatch argues Col. George W. Goethals, Panama Canal chief engineer, could be the 1916 Republican and national hero candidate. The piece traces a path from canal achievement to presidential ambitions, drawing on military leaders’ rise to civil power and noting Tawney’s early booster.
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