Word: ecuador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russian and Finnish. But he would have to speak at least 50 languages and dialects if he were to conduct personally all the affairs of the International Match Co. Within the last three years, Matchmaker Kreuger has concluded shrewd deals in Poland, Peru, Greece, Norway, Germany, France, Jugoslavia, Japan, Ecuador, Esthonia. International Match Co. controls 75% of U. S. production, through the wholly owned Vulcan Match Co., and through the "biggest" Diamond Match Co. This company has a contract with the Swedish monopoly for the sale of foreign matches in the U. S. until 1930. Last year International Match consolidated...
Galapagos Islands (private recreation). Off the equatorial west coast of South America lie the Galapagos Islands, longtime home of quaint fowl and ancient reptiles, onetime base of buccaneer expeditions. Now Ecuador owns and the U. S. explores them. Most recent pryers about the islands have been William K. Vanderbilt II and his wife, trapping sapphire-eyed cormorants, penguins pompous as bartenders, Galapagos tortoises with leathery shells, fish whose pied throats pulsate languidly. Such catch Mr. Vanderbilt carried on his yacht Ara to Miami, Fla., where on an off-shore island he maintains his private aquarium and tropical bird reservation...
...Republic of Ecuador," Professor Haring, Harvard...
...Republic of Ecuador," Professor Haring, Harvard...
...Second School represented at the Conference desires to burst through the bureaucratic, stereotyped agenda. An ardent "Second Schooler'' is President Isidore Ayora of Ecuador. His words: "It is necessary to step from verbal and declamatory Pan-Americanism to ... . concrete Pan-Americanism ... to the effective and total recognition of identical rights for all American states . . . repelling the possibility that there may exist or could exist, governments or peoples that domineer...