Bulletin of the Pan American Union, Volume 40The Union, 1915 |
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Page 585 - with eagle eyes, He stared at the Pacific, and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise Silent upon a peak in Darien. At
Page lx - The second conference sat in the City of Mexico from October 22, 1901, to January 31, 1902. One of its notable results is the fact that by means of it the American nations became parties to The Hague Convention of 1899 for the pacific settlement of international disputes. Moreover, a
Page 376 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume
Page 597 - he ordered works to be executed at the place of his birth, consisting of a masonry wall with three windows, which were emblems of the house of his fathers whence he descended. The first window was called Tampu-tocco,
Page 29 - The vampire bat Is often the cause of much trouble by biting the horses on their withers. The injury is generally not so much owing to the loss of blood as to the inflammation which the pressure of the saddle afterwards produces. The whole circumstance has lately been doubted in England. I was therefore fortunate in being present when one was actually caught on a horse's back.
Page 368 - to be represented by their ministers of finance and leading bankers, not exceeding three in number in each case, to attend a conference with the Secretary of the Treasury in the city of Washington at such date as shall be determined by the President. with a view of establishing closer and more satisfactory financial relations between their countries and the
Page 369 - is bounded on the north by the Caribbean Sea, on the east by British Guiana and the Atlantic Ocean, on the
Page 218 - between Hon. Robert Lansing, Acting Secretary of State of the United States, and Don Eusebio A. Morales, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the Republic of Panama,
Page 353 - suitable gold medals, appropriately inscribed, which shall express the high estimation in which Congress holds the services of these distinguished statesmen, and the Republics which they represent, in the promotion of peace and order in the American continent. An appropriation of $3,000
Page 111 - Without him we would not be here. Without him banners would not fly nor bands play. Without him San Francisco would not be to-day the gayest city of the globe. Shall I tell you who he is, this key figure in the arch of our enterprise? That slender, dauntless, plodding, modest figure is the American pioneer. To me