Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago the Colombian Navy splashed into the news by racing 5,000 mi. around South America and up the Amazon River to the scene of a potential war with Peru. Peru has a sad navy: two old cruisers, three destroyers, four submarines. Colombia has one even sadder: six little gunboats, the biggest under 700 tons, and some coast guard patrol boats.* Luckily the League of Nations settled the "war" in Colombia's favor, but the worried Colombians have lately been picking up bargains in second-hand war boats. Thus a U. S. steamer named the Commercial Traveler...
Seaman Robert Green of New York City had won his $1,000 claim before a U. S. District Court. The judge deputed Deputy Marshal Harry Baker to serve the papers on the Cacuta's captain. The marshal found the Colombian captain on the bridge one day last week. He turned out to be one J. R. Hodges, late of Mobile, Ala. An alert newshawk of the Philadelphia Record was on hand to record in dialect the conversation...
...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 the polls...
...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 in a virtuous decision to return Leticia to Mother Colombia. In a jungle clearing last week a Colombian trimotored plane waited to take out the League Commission. They struck their white flag and up amid huzzas went the bright gold, blue and red of Colombia. "Contact!" cried the pilot and the tri-motor roared. Said Guillermo Giraldez, Spanish President of the League Commission, as he took...
While a League of Nations commission continued to sit on the Colombia-Peru dispute over Leticia, Colombian citizens last week elected a new President without any difficulty; Alfonso Lopez, Liberal leader and Leticia expert. His only opponent was a Communist Indian farmer named Estiquio Timote...