Word: enriquez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago Peruvian and Ecuadorian soldiers tangled around the border mark and the two nations exchanged heated re-monstrances. The entire Cabinet of army officers, under Ecuador's military dictator, General G. Alberto Enriquez, resigned in a body to take their places in the army, were replaced last week with civilian ministers. All week mobs roamed the plazas of Quito, Ecuador's little capital, chanting "Down With Peru! Long Live Ecuador!" Peru's Foreign Minister Carlos Concha was calmer. "In Peru we have not yet lost our heads. Our country is in a process of prosperous development...
Fortnight ago President Enriquez tackled his Jewish immigration "problem" by announcing that all alien Jews not actively engaged in farming must become farmers within 30 days or leave the country...
Four weeks ago President Enriquez tackled the problem of press censorship by announcing that complete freedom of the press had been reestablished, appointing an annual Newspaper Men's Day, anniversary of the founding in 1792 of Ecuador's first paper, The First Fruits of Culture of Quito...
Three weeks ago President Enriquez tackled the problem of public health by decreeing that any marriage celebrated without a medical certificate testifying that both parties were free from tuberculosis, syphilis, gonorrhea, leprosy, or other similar illness can be instantly annulled by the courts...
Last week President Enriquez tackled Recession. Agreeing with his U. S. colleague, President Roosevelt, that higher, not lower, wages are needed (see p. 7), he decreed that private concerns must give raises of 15% for all employes earning less than 300 sucres ($24) per month, 10% to all earning 300 to 500 sucres. In the streets of Quito cheering, barefoot peasants wildly waved the "Panama" hats that are Ecuador's chief export manufacture...