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...where they saw floral compositions representing harps, marimbas, Guatemala's shield, books, a motorcycle, a locomotive, a train. At the end of a long, polished-mahogany chamber they were greeted by a trim, steely-eyed man. Officials addressed him as Chief, humble folk as Father. He was Jorge Ubico, celebrating his 62nd year of life, his ninth year as President of Guatemala...
...Jorge Ubico has made Guatemala the glamor girl of the Central American Republics. He has reduced the national debt 50%, has got his paper currency covered 100% by gold, has built and paid for public works. He has granted the Indians property rights, their own courts, their own military uniforms. But taxes are high, and Indians who cannot pay are forced to work their taxes out on Government projects...
After coming to power President Ubico introduced a Probity Law, requiring that public officials register their assets upon taking and leaving office. He also doubled his own salary and made it payable for life...
...country in the Western Hemisphere that owes no man anything-it has neither external nor internal debt. Since the death of its bloody, carnal 27-year Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez five years ago, it has also been fortunate in its leader. Like little Guatemala's Jorge Ubico tall, scholarly President Eleazar Lopez Contreras has given the nation a decent, liberal, reformist Government. His term ends next April. Constitutionally, he cannot succeed himself. His people find it hard to imagine that he would attempt to do so by any other means. Fortnight ago elections...
...main bout was on the Central American front, where Am Ex bought the Central American line TACA. Pan Am wasted no time in attacking there too. As much at home in palaces as clouds, Pan Am persuaded tough, handsome General Jorge Ubico, Guatemala's Dictator-President, to let it fly in his country, hitherto a TACA demesne. Pan Am immediately formed Aerovias de Guatemala, put big, heavyset, American-born Alfred Denby in charge. Fortune-hunter Denby owns Guatemala's biggest butcher shop, rates high with General Ubico. This month Aerovias, which has been conducting survey flights with sleek...