Word: cons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once safely installed in the President's Palace at Bogota, one of Senor Olaya's jobs was to take up what was known as the Barco oil concession, valued at $300,000,000 or more. This concession, con trolled by Gulf Oil Corp. which is largely owned by Secretary Mellon & Family, had been canceled by the Colombian Government in 1926. The State Department in 1928 gently pressed for its restoration...
...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 the final $4,000,000 installment to Colombia, again to the large satisfaction of the State...
...Statesman Stimson, as it appeared circumstantially, played the Barco con cession against the $4,000,000 loan and thus secured a triumph of dollar diplomacy? No, was his indignant answer. The two matters, while parallel, were separate and distinct. The State Department insisted that its sole concern in these negotiations was "the fostering of friendly relations...
...truck with electric lights ablaze, from which each one receives a sandwich, a doughnut, a cup of coffee. On the side of the truck a sign blazons: "New York American Christmas & Relief Fund Lunch Wagon." For placing a breadline (the American calls it a "sandwich line") in the most con- spicuous spot he could find, Publisher William Randolph Hearst has drawn bitter condemnation from a variety of sources. Showmen declared that the spectacle of misery at the doors of their theatres caused strollers to change their minds about spending money for fun. Merchants charged that out-of-town buyers...
...Decent conduct" cried the Red Moralist, "has nothing to do with Hell or Heaven! Instead of enforcing decent con-duct by threats of a non-existent Hell or by promises of a non-existent Heaven we must bring up our new generations to con-duct themselves decently because a comrade's own usefulness and the well-being of the nation require...