Word: ecuador
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...week it had secured the solemn pledges of Brazil, Cuba, Uruguay and Venezuela to get busy. To their collection the ladies added the promise of Argentina's President, Agustin P. Justo, then headed across the Andes for Santiago, Chile. Next in line for a pressure visit come Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Panama...
This Gentleman turned up in Barranquilla in late July 1936 with his then Model T Sedan, and two pals. We learned that he had crossed Colombia, from Ecuador on excellent highways as far as the upper Magdalena River, from where his conveyance floated down the River on a very comfortable steamer for approximately 900 kilometers, landing him in Barranquilla, where he covered several of his kilometers on concrete city streets...
...additional mule is a small mule, in fact it is almost a burro. It was the gift to the Cadet Corps from Captain Colon Eloy Alfaro, Minister of Ecuador, who has two sons in the Corps...
...Provisional President of Ecuador, stern-lipped Federico Páez suddenly announced his resignation last week, prepared to leave for the U. S. Since 1935 a tight little military group has ruled Ecuador. In September of that year they booted out Dr. Antonio Pons and replaced him with Páez as dictator. Last week, without leaving the saddle, the army coterie boosted into the Provisional Presidency War Minister Alberto Enríquez, who modestly admitted "the duties are too heavy for my shoulders." Showing no signs of this weakness, he dissolved the National Assembly, announced that he had assumed...
...open forum of the League Council the job of loudly naming for the first time a pirate power was performed by Premier Juan Negrin of Leftist Spain. Alphabetical rotation had made him president of the Council at this session, but Mr. Negrin handed his gavel to the Delegate of Ecuador, moved to another seat at the horseshoe table, drew himself up and cried: "The anonymous State whose warships are trying by constant aggressions to create a state of terrorism in the Mediterranean is Italy...