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...Constitution's tax leaks widened as Depression rolled over South America. The Batllistas (majority wing of the Colorado Party) elected Gabriel Terra president. He felt cramped in his constitutional compartment of powers, looked for elbowroom. Last month he noted with interest Montevideo businessmen's protest meetings against heavy taxes. He called in toward Montevideo the regiments he most trusted in the volunteer Army, set them to guard all roads inland from Montevideo's peninsula. The Navy had already been reduced to one small cruiser. Looking for a safe spot to live he turned to the Fire Department...
...Gabriel Terra, 60, heavy-set and heavy-jowled, looks not unlike President Harding. Uruguayans have never considered him the dictator type. A graduate of Montevideo University, he early gave up law practice to become a regular Colorado Party man. He won a name as a smart, respectable politician by vigorously backing public works: rural free schools, roads, harbors, airports, fertilizer factories, hydro-electric plants. He put through Uruguay's high tariff on agricultural products. His jobs: Minister of the Interior, Minister of Industries, Minister to Italy, Special Ambassador to Argentina, member of the National Administrative Council. A year after...
...Gabriel Over the White House...
...brain. During his convalescence there are peculiar sounds of music in the sickroom; the curtains shake in what might have been a breeze. When President Hammond recovers, he is a changed man. His female secretary (Karen Motley) tells his male secretary (Franchot Tone) that she thinks the Angel Gabriel may be hovering about the White House...
With the light of battle in his eye, an undivulged dictatorial plan in his battered head and his right ear tilted up as if listening to the guiding voice of the Angel Gabriel, he calls his Cabinet, starts weeding out unwilling tools. Unlike other dictators he resolutely refuses to use Federal troops for civil duty, to choke off a press which unanimously howls against him. When an ousted Secretary of War leagues with a third-rate Vice President to have him committed to an insane asylum, he explodes the conspiracy by broadcasting its details. Secretly he sponsors an incendiary cinema...