Word: colombians
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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TIME would have been UNIQUE in one more sense in these United States, had it commented properly, accurately, on Colombian affairs...
Last February Dr. Enrique Olaya Herrera, for eight years the Colombian minister at Washington, was elected President of Colombia. It was a unique election in that no one was killed in the campaign, no one contested the victory afterward...
...into seclusion. A few days later the U. S. rode him back to Washington in a special train. At the Union Station top-hatted officials from the State Department lined up to greet him. Military and naval units snapped to salute. The Marine Band groped its way through the Colombian national anthem (El Himno National). Guns fired 21 rounds...
Then, just before he boarded a train for Chicago, Dr. Olaya switched back from President-elect to Minister, took his leave without ceremony. This week he planned to return to Washington incognito, hide himself in the Colombian legation, come forth June 16-once more as President-elect-to receive the customary honors of an official farewell...
...project are nine companies, with the Insull interests representing the distributing end and Cities Service Co. representing the producers, who will share the $100,000,000 cost of the project. Chief of the producing companies are Texas Corp. and Standard of New Jersey, with Skelly, Phillips, Continental, Colombian Carbon, United Carbon also interested...