Word: colonization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Busy Mayor G. Ramon de Paredes of Colon last week called on the Chamber of Commerce, the Municipal Council and the Rotary Club for one volunteer each. He wanted, he said, to form a "Committee of Three" to decide which of the young women employed in Colon cabarets are "artists," which, merely "female entertainers." Volunteers were not lacking...
Casual, amused observers wondered if the distinction is worth making. Perhaps it is in Colon. By edict of Mayor G. Ramon de Paredes no young woman classified as an "entertainer" will be allowed to work in a Colon cabaret without a health certificate from Dr. Carlos Beiberach, Dr. Peralta Ortega, or Dr. Daniel R. Oduber. Bona fide "artists" will sing, dance or perform comic numbers uncertified...
...Reaction Time in Tactile and Auditive Sensations", "Verbochromy" (dealing with the phenomena of the mental association of color and words). "Psycho-physiological Analysis of the Orthographic Aptitude", "Tut-Ank-Amen and the Oriental Civilizations". Professor Mercante has also composed a symbolic opera. "Frenos", which was successfully performed at the Colon Theatre of Buenos Ayres...
...service, rose from the field at Rockaway Naval Air Station, L. I., to fly 4,600 miles to Bogota, capital of Colombia (TIME, Dec. 24). He expected to take four days. Last week he arrived, in another plane. He had been to Jacksonville. Havana. Puerto Barrios, Colon, Cartagena. Barranquilla, Girardot. He had torpedoed into the water at Colon, blasted into a tree at Girardot. After the first eight days he was 2.350 miles from his starting point. After the next 33 days he was only 400 miles further. Patriotic Colombians, whose subscriptions had bought his plane, had long since ceased...
...week. Three weeks ago he kissed Manhattan friends goodbye and started to fly to Bogota, Colombia, in his Curtiss seaplane, the Ricaurte (TIME, Dec. 3). He cleared the U. S., the Greater Antilles, Central America. Then two weeks ago he insisted on leading a fleet of welcoming planes into Colon Bay. Overeager to alight, he pitched into the water. Last week his Ricaurte was not yet repaired. The U.S. War Department offered him an Army plane wherewith to complete his voyage. Said Lt. Benny, sharply aware of his flight's significance to his native Colombia: "It was very considerate...