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...Beer in Colombia," explained a Government spokesman, "is considered a perfectly natural drink which it would be unwise to prohibit...
Specifically Senator Johnson excoriated the scramble of U. S. bond houses for South American issues, the "bribing" of a Peruvian President's son to make a loan, the restoration of the Barco oil concession to the Mellon interests by Colombia while the State Department sped up a National City Bank loan (TIME, Jan. 25). He showed statistically how U. S. private loans to 16 European nations with a par value of $1,667,562,000 had depreciated 43% to $925,559,000, how $1,600,000,000 invested in South American securities had shrunk to a cash value...
...list of countries from which students have come to Harvard this year is as follows: Abyssinia, Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Denmark, France, Greece, Guatemala, Hawaii, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, India, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Philippine Islands, Poland, Porto Rico, Russia, Scotland, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, and Venezuela...
...final $4,000.000 in Colombia's bank credit was unaccountably held up in New York. President Olaya complained to Secretary Stimson who went in person to see the attorney of National City Co. in New York. The hankers were not urged not to be "unduly technical." Mr. Schoepperle insisted that the Colombian budget had not been balanced as agreed and as for the Barco con cession, he did not "give a damn." On June 20, 1931 the Barco concession was restored to Gulf Oil Corp., to the large satisfaction of the State Department. On June 30 Mr. Schoepperle released...
...thus drumming up trade for Aluminum Co. He has caused "millions" of dollars in taxes to be refunded to Aluminum Co. and Gulf Oil, "thousands" of dollars to himself. The Treasury literally labels his concerns "Mellon companies." He used his official position to have the Barco oil concession in Colombia restored by that Government to Gulf Oil, following personal conversation with President-elect Olaya Herrera...