Word: mejias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legal battles, a "conduct committee" of the National Association of Securities Dealers found the brokerage house guilty of failing to "exercise proper and adequate supervision" over its San Francisco branch. The committee ruled that Harris, Upham be fined $50,000 and that the San Francisco office manager, Arthur R. Mejia, be suspended for five days and fined $5,000. In addition, Asa V. Wilder, the broker who handled Mrs. Hecht's account and who has since left the firm, was fined $10,000 and had his registration revoked. Harris, Upham has 30 days to appeal the decision...
...effort by the Colombian army last year finally brought a semblance of order to the backlands. Now la violencia has broken out in a more subtle form in Colombia's cities. Last week in Medellin, a city of 700,000 northwest of Bogotá, Carlos Mejia, 9, son of one of the country's richest industrialists, was kidnaped as he walked to school; the kidnapers demanded $180,000 for his safe return. That same day in Bogotá, the wife of a prominent doctor was dragged from her home by three thugs. Says Colombia's National Police...
...week's end, the doctor's wife was released after her husband agreed to issue a Communist-style statement denouncing the country's social inequalities. The police were luckier with Carlos Mejia. They freed him and arrested four persons, including the Mejia family's ex-chauffeur. But it was one of their few successes. In all the cases reported last year, not a single kidnaper has been brought to trial...
Born on a remote farm, merry-eyed Teacher Mejia was 13 when she took over a rural classroom at a $3-a-month salary. At 16 she became a Roman Catholic nun, later went to Mexico for five years to help rebuild revolution-ruined villages. Then her father killed a man in self-defense, and she left her order. In despair, she found a new cause: devoting her life, energy and knowledge to teaching and off-hours building in Colombia's wild Caldas department...
Bandits have burned five of her schools, and in 1947 her sister's whole family was killed when civil war broke out in the region. To help prevent such violence is Teacher Mejia's main mission; she spends her entire $55.50 monthly salary for building materials. For 41 years she has gone on this way, but help is due. Soon to be launched: a new government school-building campaign patterned after hers, to provide a primary-school education for all Colombian children by 1970. Builder Mejia will not lay down her tools; she has plans for 16 more...