Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted resolutions by Senator Dill, Democrat of Washington, asking the State Department to furnish diplomatic correspondence relating to foreign oil concessions of Americans, especially in regard to the treaty with Colombia which former Secretary of the Interior Fall had advocated...
...Senate got on the trail of diplomatic correspondence with foreign Governments regarding oil concessions to Americans. A treaty with Colombia, to which the U. S. paid $25,000,000-as recommended by Secretary Fall-was the occasion of the inquiry...
...Colombia a violent earthquake destroyed the small towns of Cumbal and Chile in the region of Ipiales near the Ecuadorian frontier. Volcanoes in the vicinity of the towns were reputed in active eruption. Eighty-five corpses were recovered from the ruins of Cumbal...
...Kemmerer, professor of economics at Princeton, has returned to his work at that university after six months as president of a financial commission which was organized to straighten out economic conditions in the Republic of Colombia. This American commission, which was formed at the special request of Colombia, was instrumental in averting a financial panic which the minister of the treasury claimed to be "the most stupendous banking crisis which ever occurred in Colombia". Professor Kemmerer had under him on the commission several other noted economists, including Profesor F. R. Fairchild of Yale...
...following eight Latin American countries have U. S. financial advisers: Colombia, Peru, Panama, Cuba, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Haiti, the Dominican Republic...