Word: dential
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sits in a rocking chair under a giant rubber tree and holds court. But Caracas saw him last week, when in full uniform General Juan Vicente Gomez celebrated the 25th anniversary of his seizure of the government. Ceremonies were simple. He stalked to the Casa Amarilla, the presi dential palace where he first took office, then through lines of blue-clad soldiers to Caracas Cathedral to dedicate 400,000 bolivars ($104,000) of restorations. On the sidewalks citizens yelled them selves hoarse. Was their President not El Benemerito, the Meritorious One? Had he not made a record in 25 years...
...Commissioner Mackin tosh were not surprised at the commotion his challenge stirred up. He first proved himself an eminent disturber when he at tended the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1920 as a delegate from the State of Washington. Primary voters had instructed him to support the presi dential candidacy of Senator Hiram John son of California. Disregarding his politi cal pledges, he boldly boomed Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts for the Presidency. It was largely on the strength of his agitation that Governor Coolidge was nominated for the Vice-Presidency. President Coolidge later rewarded his boomer with...