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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Originally Dr. Olaya had arranged with the State Department to come out of his ministerial cocoon as a butterfly head-of-state in mid-June. Unexpectedly the State Department learned that Julio Prestes, President-elect of Brazil, planned to return President Hoover's goodwill visit in mid-June. The prospect of two Latin-American Presidents-elect simultaneously in Washington unnerved the State Department's master of protocol to the point of requesting Dr. Olaya to advance his transmogrification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Quick-Change Statesman | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

...chronicle of the Caterpillar Club appears this week in a new book Jump! by Don Glassman,graduate of the University of Missouri, journalist. A "Caterpillar" is a flyer who has dropped over the side of a disabled or lost plane-like a butterfly wriggling out of its cocoon-and swung down through space to safety with parachute mushrooming over his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Caterpillars | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

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