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Christopher Columbus performed the impossible feat of making an egg stand on one end by slightly cracking and flattening that end of the eggshell. Sheldon Whitehouse, by means equally simple and direct, un-cracked the Guatemalan joke...
Central American revolutions have caused many a jape from the pens of Richard Harding Davis and O. Henry. Guatemala lived up to the requirements of fiction last week by having three presidents in seven days. It was a serious matter to the Guatemalans; it became an embarrassing matter to the U. S. State Department. Fortnight ago General Lazaro Chacon, President of Guatemala since 1927, was suddenly stricken with what physicians described as a cerebral hemorrhage, forced to resign the presidency because of illness, He was succeeded by one Baudilio Palma, Second Designate under the Constitution,* and President Palma was found...
...years the bleak crater of the volcano of Santa Maria has jutted high in the backbone of the Sierra Madre, breathing acrid vapors against the blue Guatemalan sky. Never since the eruption of 1902 has it done much more than that. Planters grew used to the rumblings of Holy Mary, dug through the sterile crust of lava on her flanks to plant coffee bushes in the rich soil beneath. In recent years aviators have used the white plume from her crater as a beacon. Ten days ago Pilot D. G. Richardson, operations manager of the Mexican division of Pan American...
Colonel Daniel Hernandez, Guatemalan Minister of Promotion, visited the scene of the eruption at once, approached as close as possible to the lava stream and reported blackened corpses, like raisins on a pudding, carried along on its surface. Came an official bulletin...
Completion of the link between the Guatemala and the Salvador railway will bring to a successful conclusion 25 years of effort by Minor Cooper Keith, organizer of potent United Fruit Co. In 1904 (five years after the formation of United Fruit) Mr. Keith acquired from the Guatemalan government a 130-mile railroad which ran from Puerto Barrios (Guatemalan Atlantic port) inland. It was a very unprofitable road, since its other extremity was but Guatemala City, its only logical western terminus. But Mr. Keith pointed out to United Fruit that it could well and profitably grow bananas in eastern Guatemala, thus...