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Once the agent in Colombia of Dillon, Read & Co., suave, bankerish Dr. Alfonso Lopez was last week inaugurated President while a mob of 50,000 jammed Bogota's Plaza Bolivar and roared themselves hoarse...
Against Dr. Lopez's election last winter there was no opposition. He really began the campaign four years earlier when he assumed active charge of the Liberal Party which had not elected a President in 44 years and was considered Colombia's political mummy. With artful zeal Dr. Lopez built up tall, big-boned, Enrique Olaya Herrera, then Colombian Minister at Washington, into a popular candidate and secured his election (TIME, Feb. 24, 1930). This year President Olaya took such strenuous steps to return the compliment and secure Dr. Lopez's election that his chief opponent...
That drizzly August noon was not such a day for a homecoming as the President had had a month earlier when he drove through the green fields of Maryland to Annapolis to board his ship for a vacation in Haiti, Puerto Rico, Colombia, the Canal Zone and Hawaii. When he departed he needed rest?and he got it. He hoped that, with the spotlight turned off Washington, the country would get a rest, too. But when he landed in Portland last week and was met by an anxious conclave including two members of his Cabinet and two of his White...
...visit the Panama Canal, which he crossed in six hours. Day before he had been the first President ever to set foot in South American soil, the first to address the nation by radio from a foreign state. The last two "firsts" were recorded at Cartagena where he and Colombia's President Enrique Olaya Herrera greeted each other. After mutual professions of esteem and goodwill, the two Presidents took a drive about the 400-year-old capital of the Spanish Main. A point of interest was the old fort over the harbor. President Roosevelt could claim no direct connection with...
...banners demanding the removal of Governor Pearson, the appointment of a Democrat. His fondness unshaken, the President bade the Governor a cordial farewell. The Houston, with the two destroyers in her wake, streaked away once more over the blue waters, cutting a long diagonal across the Caribbean, toward Cartagena, Colombia...