Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cristobal-Miami run one day last week. The crew and two passengers were thankful to be up in the gusty sky instead of down on the surface of the Caribbean which still writhed and tossed from a whipping by a three-day gale. About 100 mi. short of Barranquilla, Colombia, first stop on the plane's northering flight via Jamaica, Pilot Frank Ormsbee saw something that made him nose rapidly down toward the water...
...world as physician to sick money systems. Princeton has loaned him freely to various nations since 1912, but long before (in 1903), he helped the U. S. Philippine Commission start the islands off on the gold standard. Since then he has probed the problems of Egypt, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Union of South Africa, Chile, Poland, Ecuador, Bolivia, China, Panama and Peru. In 1925 he analyzed the economic ills of the great nations of Europe, serving as the expert on currency and banking for the Dawes Committee. So sound and fruitful have been his labors that the name of Edwin Walte...
...ousted President's acts.* In jig time the No. 7 Revolution to force out a Constitutional President in South America since Bolivia made No. 1, subsided for the week. Observers scanned the troubled continent, saw only three republics where revolt has not successfully raised its head: two-faced Colombia†; cattle-rich little Uruguay; oily Venezuela...
...volume, the Annual Report glances about the world, thus: "By general consent 1930 was a gloomy and depressing year in China's political history. . . . The political situation in Colombia has shown no improvement. . . . Burma was affected during the year by a series of local disasters. ..." Lyrically of the Egyptian Agency (Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, etc.) it says: "There Pharaoh oppressed and Candace reigned, where Herod wantoned and Moses died, where Muhammad fled and the Mahdi slew. ..." Against these backgrounds are painted the labors of the Holy Bible salesmen. One entered an Austrian circus, sold Gospels to Japanese, Italian and Arabic...
...black type) without mentioning his name could be secured by interested clubs to discuss international affairs. You then, evidently with the intention of clever ridicule (which I admit makes good reading!) emphasize that said "Ambassador" had been identified as myself, a former "U. S. Minister to Siam, Argentina, Panama, Colombia, longtime (1907-20) Director General of the Pan American Union...