Word: costas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Replacing Colonel Spaulding is Arthur R. Harris, Major, Field Artillery, a graduate of West Point in 1914, present military Attachez of the American Legation in San Jose, Costa Rica; Guatamala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and San Salvador...
...students that jack-up in the Palace price on busy nights is a major grievance. Around dinner tables one evening last fortnight passed word to meet at the theatre. After dinner groups of students, more boisterous than usual, began to gather outside the Palace and across the street at Costa's ice cream parlor. The Palace management, knowing the genesis of a riot when it saw one, quickly called police...
...wiped his mouth with a handkerchief from his side pocket; finished reading; squiggled a signature. His desk was clear. Then, he straightened up and turned on his charm to greet Ambassador Oswaldo Aranha (a great Roosevelt admirer) who arrived accompanied by Brazil's Minister of Finance, Arthur Souza Costa. The President smiled his most charming smile as he took Senhor Souza Costa's hand. Then the agreement was spread on the desk in duplicate. Senhor Aranha, sitting on the President's right, and Secretary Hull, sitting at his left, put their signatures to it in the presence...
...Little Costa Rica is unique in having the biggest proportion of pure-blooded Spaniards, the most peaceful history, the smallest army budget, one of the oldest constitutions and biggest school budgets in Latin America. No less remarkable is Costa Rica's President, Ricardo ("Don Ricardo") Jiménez y Oreamuno, 75, son & grandson of Costa Rican Presidents, three times President himself and year in & year out the most popular man in the country. Once he bailed out a man who had defamed him, saying: "Let no one be imprisoned for anything he may say about...
Last week this wise old original was entertaining the wife of neighbor Nicaragua's President Juan Sacasa over the New Year holidays in high, pleasant San Jose. Her departure was an occasion for a parting gift. One of Costa Rica's three railroads had been electrified and had some obsolete equipment. President Jimenez presented Senora Sacasa with two oil-burning locomotives, used but serviceable, for Nicaragua's under-equipped railroads...