Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upon investigation the Universal Legion which sent this cable from Manhattan to His Holiness last week, turned out to be mostly letterhead, its secretary being its founder and sole member, one Carlos Palacio, a Colombian. Partisans for a U. S. pope are not hard to find,* but Secretary Palacio had no particular man in mind, nor any other definite plan. He expected no answer to his cablegram, got none. In Vatican City Pope Pius XI, prayerful and thankful that he had been spared to pass his 79th Easter week, his 15th as Pontiff, had more important things to do than...
...double-alert for conflicts of interests in fiduciary or quasi-fiduciary positions is SEC, and before approving the committee's registration statement for deposit certificates (to be exchanged for Colombian bonds), it wanted to know what would happen if the protection of bondholders required action detrimental to Standard, such as pressing for higher taxes in Colombia. Committeemen Hayes and McCann admitted they would resign before doing anything prejudicial to the big oil company. The fact that the committee was "plastered with 26 Broadway'' seemed largely coincidence, but SEC took the case under advisement...
Some 20 years ago a high-calibre Colombian general named Virgilio Barco journeyed to Manhattan to sell an oil concession he held on 1,200,000 acres of his native jungle, dropped into the Standard Oil Building. Legend is that he got no farther than the gate: suspicious of his torrent of Spanish, the bomb-conscious guards summarily ejected him through the door. Thereafter the proud Colombian refused to have any dealing with Standard Oil of New Jersey. His concession was snapped up by Promoter Carl Kendriok MacFadden for his Carib Syndicate, Ltd., which kept a minority interest, sold...
...recognized Franco. Spokesmen at Berlin and at Rome made ingenious comparisons, asking foreign correspondents to reflect on precedents afforded by their own governments. Thus President Theodore Roosevelt, whether or not he provoked an insurgent rising in the United States of Colombia, made haste to recognize the insurgents in the Colombian province of Panama and as his reward obtained the Canal Zone, ultimately squaring Colombia with $25,000,000. Had Colombia, instead, taken a belligerent course, reconquering Panama and the Zone, the prestige of Washington would have suffered as much as will that of Berlin and Rome if the Whites...
...striking contrast to Denmark's gallant treatment of marrying Madam Minister Owen, pious Colombians made suave, energetic Spinster Guillen's life miserable after she ventured to deny officially that her Government persecuted the Catholic Church. Too late a Colombian newspaper editor reminded his churlish readers: "Señorita Guillen has said many nice things about Colombia and refused higher posts in the U. S. and Europe because she preferred Colombia...