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...there was no opposition. He really began the campaign four years earlier when he assumed active charge of the Liberal Party which had not elected a President in 44 years and was considered Colombia's political mummy. With artful zeal Dr. Lopez built up tall, big-boned, Enrique Olaya Herrera, then Colombian Minister at Washington, into a popular candidate and secured his election (TIME, Feb. 24, 1930). This year President Olaya took such strenuous steps to return the compliment and secure Dr. Lopez's election that his chief opponent, the Conservative Party, put up no candidate and boycotted...
...which he crossed in six hours. Day before he had been the first President ever to set foot in South American soil, the first to address the nation by radio from a foreign state. The last two "firsts" were recorded at Cartagena where he and Colombia's President Enrique Olaya Herrera greeted each other. After mutual professions of esteem and goodwill, the two Presidents took a drive about the 400-year-old capital of the Spanish Main. A point of interest was the old fort over the harbor. President Roosevelt could claim no direct connection with...
...real trouble has been that the Peruvian Government, while not overanxious to keep the ravished province, found the rape excessively popular in Peru and for months did not know how to let Leticia go without shame to Peru's virile Latin "honor." Only the vast tact of President Olaya Herrera of Colombia and General Vasquez Cobo whom he sent to overawe the Peruvians in Leticia, made a settlement without undue bloodshed possible. Swamp fever did most of the killing. Tall, patient President Olaya Herrera and short, jovial General Vasquez Cobo embraced enthusiastically as the diplomatic squabble ended...
Three days earlier in Bogota, Colombia's capital, President & Senora Enrique Olaya Herrera had called at the Bank of the Republic to have their thick gold wedding rings cut from their fingers. Thousands of other Colombian spouses with big finger joints made the same sacrifice. Brides & grooms slipped off their rings, flung them into the Treasury's "Defense Chest...
Once his country's Minister at Washington (1922-30), purposeful, air-minded President Dr. Enrique Olaya Herrera surprised his countrymen by issuing without warning last week two decrees: the first prohibits from July 1 "the sale of alcoholic beverages, except beer, between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. and on Sundays and holidays;" the second strikes directly at the old Colombian custom of gun-toting, drastically restricts imports of firearms, stiffens the requirements for licenses to carry them...