Evening star

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would be called upon, along with

Brazil and Argentina, to take a mini

mum of fifty $100,000 shares each;

Mexico and Venezuela, thirty-five

shares each; Chile, Colombia and

Cuba, thirty shares each; Peru and

Uruguay twenty shares»each; Bolivia,

fifteen shares; the Dominican Re

public and Panama, ten shares each,

and Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador,

Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua and

Paraguay, five shares each. The bank

is designed to foster inter-American

co-operation in agriculture, industry,

public utilities, mining, transporta

tion, the use of gold and silver and

international payments.

The U. S. Cafeterias

Trustees of the Welfare and Rec

reational Association have presented

a well-rounded reply to the report of

Acting Controller General Elliott,

which charged that the contract

under which the association operates

cafeterias and other facilities for

Federal employes is illegal, and that

improper expenditures have deprived

the Government of its share of the

proceeds from these ventures.

To the contention that the asso

ciation, a non-profit corporation,

has no right to occupy space on

public property, the trustee? answer

that there is a general authority for

such leasing that has been recog

nized for fifty years.

Instead of owing the Government

nearly two hundred thousand dollars

as Mr. Elliott alleged, the trustees

say that when the association ac

count was in dispute three years

ago, settlement was made for some

thing less than eight thousand. Fur

ther, it is added, more than three

hundred thousand dollars in cash

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1940). Washington, D.C., 1940-03-17. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1940-03-17/ed-1/?sp=34

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1940-03-17.