Word: arosemena
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...rearm, which the Munich deal starting gun set off month ago, is the little Latin American republic of Panama. Disturbed because neighboring Costa Rica suddenly abandoned plans to ratify a pact settling a long-disputed 150-mile border between the two States, Panama's President, Dr. Juan Demostenes Arosemena, last week signed a hurriedly drafted bill providing $1,000,000 for national defense. Hitherto, defense has been an unknown item in Panama's budget. Most of the money will be used to fortify the northern border, disputed since 1904 and over which Costa Rica and Panama fought...
...land it. That day also he landed his heaviest catch to date, a 230-lb. shark, which revenged him somewhat on the Cocos shark tribe for stealing many fish off his hook.* To greet the U. S. President at Balboa came Panama's President Juan Demóstenes Arosemena, bearing a gift of rare Panamanian stamps, a complete album of every issue since 1897, in a casket of polished hardwood. They motored, discussed U. S. aid to help Panama build roads (as a Canal defense measure), lunched with Governor Clarence Ridley of the Canal Zone, rode across the Isthmus...
Last week, Panama decided to start collecting, by hook or crook. Through the authoritative newspaper El Nuevo Diaro, President Juan Demostenes Arosemena let it be known that on a $3,500,000 loan floated in the U. S. in 1923, Panama would fail to make the $62,000 payment due this week...
Everything was nicely in hand, read the reports to the President. Thirty Panama troopers with machine guns were already guarding the treasure, half of which under Panama law belonged to the Government. Determined that there should be no hitch President Arosemena ordered his trusty chief of police, Colonel Manuel Pino, to take five planes and fly to David-nearest possible landing ground to the mine-to bring the bullion to Panama...
Irate President Arosemena, suspecting that he was the victim of a hoax, demanded to know why the Governor of Chiriqui and Captain Sagel had confirmed the "discovery" in the first place. He received the official explanation that "someone must have interpreted a message wrongly." This was too much for the President's patience. He dismissed both the Governor of Chiriqui and Captain Sagel, ordered a judicial inquiry...