Word: costas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With Belgium, Haiti, Sweden, Brazil, Canada, The Netherlands and colonies, Switzerland, Honduras, Colombia, France and colonies, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Finland, Costa Rica, Salvador, Czechoslovakia, Ecuador. Special pact: Cuba...
...belated entrant and cheap plater in the world's newest race to rearm, which the Munich deal starting gun set off month ago, is the little Latin American republic of Panama. Disturbed because neighboring Costa Rica suddenly abandoned plans to ratify a pact settling a long-disputed 150-mile border between the two States, Panama's President, Dr. Juan Demostenes Arosemena, last week signed a hurriedly drafted bill providing $1,000,000 for national defense. Hitherto, defense has been an unknown item in Panama's budget. Most of the money will be used to fortify the northern...
Today Philip Bancroft is well hated in his own Contra Costa County, but well backed by the forces who feel Candidate Downey must be beaten. He has Herbert Hoover actively behind him, and also Senator Hiram Johnson who regards Sheridan Downey as too "shifty...
...Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela...
Unlike Mexico, which expropriates private property, then pleads inability to pay, Costa Rica is obliged by its Constitution to pay first, then expropriate. Last week President Léon Cortés Castro approved a plan to dig up the necessary payment-a Government bond issue mortgaging the firm's $3,000,000 power plant. The sirens which acclaimed future Government control of a U. S. public utility were premature, however. Three million dollars would be a staggering amount for agricultural Costa Rica's 591,000 inhabitants to kick in for such a bond issue at home. Abroad...