Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Alexander Hamilton Rice '98, M.D. '04, will give a talk at the Copley-Plaza Hotel on Wednesday evening, April 23, under the auspices of the American Committee for Devastated France. He will describe his "Explorations in the Colombian Caqueta and Brazillian Amazon...
...Roosevelt's denial that he did not instigate the revolution in Panama. What happened is this. (I am in a position to know, since my father-in-law was one of the men who financed the revolt): When the first treaty with the United States was rejected by the Colombian Congress, the business men of Panama, many of them foreigners, were afraid that the Canal would not be built, so they started a separist move- ment; it was not a popular uprising. Envoys were sent to the United States to obtain aid, but they met with no encouragement. Discouraged, they...
...Edor is a specialist on Colombia. He represents several large Colombian corporations, handling their legal business in this country. He has written a number of volumes on Colombia, notably one in the Scribner South American series published in 1913. The Colombian Government has often employed him in a professional capacity as legal adviser...