Word: padilla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Learning of plans for an exhibition of Chilean products in Manhattan, Assistant Chilean Consul Miguel Padilla ordered some of his native palms and pines shipped to the U. S. Upon arrival in Manhattan they were quarantined by Department of Agriculture agents, sent on to Washington for inspection. From Washington last week, the Department of Agriculture ruled that Padilla must ship his exhibits back to Chile, the exhibition meanwhile having closed several weeks ago and the plants having died...
...Winston Guest for John Hay Whitney at Back and Stewart Iglehart for Gerald Balding at No. 2- could be made before the next game in the two-out-of-three series. What Argentina's reaction to such a move would be was promptly indicated by Lieut.-Colonel Enrique Padilla of the Argentine Polo Association when he heard of the proposal in Buenos Aires. Said he: "May I say a revision of the Greentree team would be equivalent to this situation: I agree to sell you a house at a certain price, then tell you the price has been changed...
Three hours before it was time for the Mendieta speech over COCO 16 men with submachine guns and pistols shot the radio tubes and equipment of station CMQ to blazes for a $40,000 loss. At about the same time Nicolas Castano Padilla, 66-year-old Havana banker, importer, sugar mill owner and lumberman, was kidnapped and held for $300,000 ransom. At once 4,500 Cuban police and soldiers and 300 secret service agents were let loose upon Havana to catch the kidnappers, and amid seething turmoil the opposition demanded for perhaps the dozenth time that President Mendieta resign...
...State Department has been irate ever since the munitions inquiry began in September over the disclosures of graft paid to foreign officials: "Commissions" to the head of the Nicaraguan National Guard with the knowledge of President Sacasa; "presents" to General Padilla, Guatemalan Minister of War, to permit the importation of "sporting" guns; to a Mexican general "to make his life more pleasant" to a citizen of Honduras who "always gets permits because he advances money to public officials including the President himself" a 4% commission to Chinese officials on a Chinese powder purchase. This a du Pont official admitted...
...Italy a boycott movement was started against U. S. cotton. Don Alejandro Padilla y Bell, Spanish Ambassador to the U. S., publicly complained that his country would be hardest hit by the new tariff, cited the fact that out of 81% exports to the U. S., the duty on 42 of them would be upped, including cork, olives, onions, almonds, peppers and imitation pearls. Swiss watchmakers posted throughout their country such notices as: "ONE FOR ALL. ALL FOR ONE. ... We ask all manufacturers, craftsmen, merchants and consumers to banish ... all merchandise of U. S. origin...