Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company. The Commission merely wanted Mr. Teagle to answer a question which he himself had asked in a letter to Frederick H. Bedford Jr., a working Standard director: Why did Standard "happen to be so directly interested" in a protective committee for defaulted bonds of the Republic of Colombia...
...world. After teaching economics for 13 years at the University of North Carolina, he was appointed director of the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce by President Roosevelt in 1934. He sat in with State Department officials on the drafting of reciprocal trade treaties with Cuba, Belgium, Brazil, Haiti, Sweden, Colombia. Gentle, pipe-smoking President Murchison saw clearly the impossibility of damming Japanese cottons with further import duties. Restrictions strong enough to affect the Japanese would be absurdly unfair to European exporters, and U. S. policy forbade a sharply discriminatory tariff...
...President Jorge Ubico of Guatemala awarded the Order's Grand Cross to King Victor Emanuel III of Italy, Premier Benito Mussolini, Presidents Albert Lebrun of France, Lin Sen of China, Maxmiliano Martinez of El Salvador, Tiburcio Carias Andino of Honduras, Leon Cortes of Costa Rica, Alfonso Lopez of Colombia, Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua and Stenio Vincent of Haiti "for personal merits and friendship to Guatemala...
...great field for this is the Barco concession in Colombia, which Texas acquired jointly with Socony-Vacuum (TIME, May 4). The other is in the Middle and Far East...
...Alumni Association, and member of the Board of Overseers; George Rublee '90 of Washington, D. C., a lawyer and formerly member of the Federal Trade Commission and legal adviser to the American Embassy in Mexico, to the American delegation to the London Naval Conference, and to the government of Colombia; Right Reverend James DeW. Perry '92 of Providence, Rhode Island, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States...