Word: panamanians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...freighter Black Gull, of the Black Diamond Lines, bound for Rotterdam and Antwerp via the English Channel. But within 48 hours the Maritime Commission had tentatively approved an application from the United States Lines to transfer registry of nine ships to the Republic of Panama. Under Panamanian registry they could go merrily on carrying cargoes to Europe's belligerents...
...Panamanian response to the Italian press's declaration that Italy's frontier is Panama was a messy "frontier" incident. An Italian admiral commanding two goodwill cruising cruisers and the Italian Minister to Panama motored out of Panama City to make an official call on Panama's President. Caught with their windows down, they were soon so covered with refuse heaved at them by angry bystanders that their call had to be postponed while they drove back to the flagship for a change of uniforms...
...landed his heaviest catch to date, a 230-lb. shark, which revenged him somewhat on the Cocos shark tribe for stealing many fish off his hook.* To greet the U. S. President at Balboa came Panama's President Juan Demóstenes Arosemena, bearing a gift of rare Panamanian stamps, a complete album of every issue since 1897, in a casket of polished hardwood. They motored, discussed U. S. aid to help Panama build roads (as a Canal defense measure), lunched with Governor Clarence Ridley of the Canal Zone, rode across the Isthmus in a special train...
Ricardo J. Alfaro, former president of Panama, and for many years Panamanian minister to the United States, will discuss present day problems of Pan Americanism in three public lectures next week...
Alfaro was president of Panama 1931-32, and minister to the United States 1922-30, and 1932-37. A distinguished jurist, he served on the commission on the codification of law, Panama, 1913; as Panamanian judge in the Mixed Claims Commission dealing with expropriations for the Panama Canal, 1915; as Secretary of Government and Justice, Panama, 1918-22; and as a member of the Hague Court...