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The present and unimpressive list of potential presidential candidates is completed by the name of Raúl Gurdián, present Foreign Minister, kindman and political protege or Ricardo Jiménez. He is still in his early forties and his face, which his detractors compare to that of a bull dog, faithfully symbolizes his dogged, determined character. Trained in the tortuous school of Costa Rican law, where the measure of a barrister ability seems to be his success in prolonging suits indefinitely, he gradually drifted into the profitable pursuit of representing foreign corporations. His brother in law, Luis Anderson, achieved considerable success along this line before his clients finally convinced themselves that Mr. Anderson was more interested in cashing monthly retaining fees than in getting justice. Señor Gurdián has numbered among his clients at one time or another the Electric Companies (Electric Bond Share subsidiaries. the Pan American Airways, the Panama Mail Steamship Company, and Agencias Unidas (Otis, McAllister Company of San Francisco. He has supplemented his legal earnings by investments in coffee properties jointly with his brothers and his wife family (Montealegre. Señor Gurdián has many traits that would help him to give the nation a worthwhile administration: his