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Back to Manhattan last week steamed the biggest boatload of doctors ever to put to sea. There were 375 of them, mostly with wives, and they were returning from 16 days of talking shop, seeing the sights and spreading goodwill in Cuba, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Members of the Pan American Medical Association, they had chartered the Panama-Pacific liner S. S. Pennsylvania, turned their Fifth Scientific Congress into a junket...
While a League of Nations commission continued to sit on the Colombia-Peru dispute over Leticia, Colombian citizens last week elected a new President without any difficulty; Alfonso Lopez, Liberal leader and Leticia expert. His only opponent was a Communist Indian farmer named Estiquio Timote...
...office, told them that he thought the Cuban Government of President Mendieta was ripe for recognition, that he intended to recognize Cuba the next day (see p. 23). The diplomats were delighted at such unusual courtesy. After reaching home Ambassador Trucco of Chile and Minister Lozano of Colombia telephoned friendly diplomats to find out what the President had said, inasmuch as they understood no English...
...prove to be worth $500 a year ... I will be inclined to grant . . . another year's subscription gratis." As a postscript he added: "I shall take occasion very frequently in the columns of the Watchtower to state my views as to the status of the Idaho Copper and Colombia Emerald Companies. I think what I shall have to say will prove of great interest...
Idaho Copper went into receivership in 1929, was pulled out, then slipped in again in 1932. Its stock last sold in 1931 at 2/5 of 1? a share. Its production is nil. Colombia Emerald has some emeralds but its mine in the Department of Boyaca, Colombia is closed and its shares were lately quoted...