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Colombia's new-dealing President Alfonso LÓpez is respected throughout South America as a statesman of vision and intelligence. But the exuberance of Colombian politics sometimes unnerves him. At such times he offers the Senate his resignation. LÓpez has offered to resign because of 1) a political scandal following the murder of "Mamatoco" (an obscure Negro boxer), 2) a division in the ranks of his political supporters, 3) his wife's illness, 4) Colombia's humid political atmosphere. In the past two years the Senate has consistently refused his resignations...
Following a series of ten conspiracies against his Government, President LÓpez offered his resignation again last fortnight...
...horses at Hialeah. Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly popped in & out again. Ex-Ambassadors Joe Davies and Joe Kennedy were at their Palm Beach houses, as was ex-Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles. Grover Whalen was down for a couple of weeks. President Alfonso López of Colombia suddenly left for home when he heard that the Colombian political situation needed his attention. But Otto of Austria stayed...
...nation which has celebrated its 400th anniversary and which proudly calls Bogota, its leading city, "the Athens of America," inaugurated a new-old President last week. He was scholarly, able Dr. Alfonso López, President during 1934-38, now returning to office after the four-year interval decreed by a constitutional nonsuccession clause...
Banker turned social reformer, Dr. López opened his first term with a new deal program of public works which changed the faces of Colombia's cities. His new term, into which he stepped fresh from a 26-day visit in the U.S., opens with a new deal in U.S.-Colombian relations which may change the appearance of Colombia's hinterlands...