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More select was another political feast, given in Madrid last week by Mrs. Ogden Haggerty Hammond. Present were Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain and General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera...
President Miguel Abadia Mendez declared martial law, peace was restored, and from Santa Marta sailed a laden ship owned and operated by the United Fruit...
...used is Colombia to labor agitation, that recently President Miguel Abadia Mendez was given the right to declare martial law at a moment's notice when labor troubles threatened. This...
Colombia. Of all the nations of South America only Colombia faces on two oceans. Strangely enough this does not mean that it would be easy for President-Elect Hoover to visit President Miguel Abadia Mendez of Colombia from the Pacific side. Short of flying it would be nearly impossible. For a chain of mighty mountains cuts off Bogota (see Map) from the Pacific Ocean, and the Colombian Capital is itself more than a mile and a half high (8,560 ft.). Even from the Atlantic side it takes longer to reach Bogota, by express steamer up the great Magdalena River...
From the Madeira Islands the course was directed northwards towards the Azores. Late in the afternoon the ship was sighted over Sao Miguel headed finally for the open sea. It was at this time that Karl H. von Wiegand, Hearst correspondent, radioed: "While ocean liners along the northern steamer lane are laboring in the heaviest weather, the Graf Zeppelin is sailing along under beautiful skies a thousand feet above the smooth ocean...