Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt last week stepped Career Diplomat Sheldon Whitehouse up from Minister to Guatemala to Minister to Colombia. An urbane gentleman with wavy hair and elegant manners. Minister Whitehouse was educated at Eton and Yale, got into the Foreign Service as private secretary to the late great Whitelaw Reid when the New York Tribune publisher was Ambassador to Great Britain. As counsel of the Paris embassy in 1927 he was roundly flayed in Congress when it was discovered that sleuths had been sent after New York's Mayor Walker as that playboy took his fun in Paris...
John Lager's next great discovery was a pure fluke. In 1908 he sent a crate of 1,000 dormant,unpotted orchid plants from Colombia to his greenhouses in New Jersey. Since they were not in flower, there was no way of telling more than that they were Cattleya Gigas, a fairly common orchid family. Of the 1,000, about half were sold in small quantities to other nurserymen just as they left the crate. The rest Mr. Lager potted, put in the greenhouse. In 1910 one plant suddenly bloomed pure white. No pure white Cattleya Gigas has ever...
...grimy little port on the Upper Amazon, named by a romantic engineer for a Miss Leticia Smith (who married someone else), Leticia was ceded by Peru to Colombia in 1922. Its population remained predominantly Peruvian...
...Colombia and Peru to proceed immediately toward final arbitration of the question...
...Colombia's Eduardo Santos and Peru's Francisco Garcia Calderon dipped the Imperial ivory gift-pen deep in the Abyssinian inkwell and signed. Cried Senor Santos...