Word: gomez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortnight ago the world received calmly the news that General Juan Vicente Gomez had been unanimously re-elected President of Venezuela. To every black-eyed Venezuelan boy it has been one of the fixed and immutable facts of life that ancient, crafty, blue-spectacled Gomez is and ever shall be President of Venezuela, as he has been for 20 years...
Subscriber Gladys Slaughter originally rebuked TIME for not displaying Maracay as the place where "the original bachelor father," President Juan Vincente Gomez of Venezuela, lives with his "Reigning Favorite . . . and what's more at least 60 of his 84 acknowledged children." To Dictator Gomez a thoroughgoing rebuke, if his minions have kept from Subscriber Slaughter the issue of TIME in which her letter appeared...
...Versailles of Venezuela" Sirs: Fancy how hurt we Maracayans were to see your map of South America in the Dec. 24 issue with never a mention of Maracay. You say "Caracas, city of perpetual spring and home of General Gomez." All wrong! Gomez, le Grand, never sets foot in Caracas, he lives, breathes and transacts all business right here in Maracay- the Versailles of Venezuela. And what's more. at least 60 of his 84 acknowledged children live in and round the town. He is the original bachelor father, as you may or may not know. AND the Reigning...
...disturbed and even terrified did Venezuelans become at the dangerous caprices of President Castro, that they welcomed with frenzied enthusiasm a coup d'etat by the then Vice President, General Juan Vicente Gomez. Ever since that day -Dec. 19, 1908-General Gomez has been perfecting his Dictatorship and directing what he calls "Venezuela's era of national rehabilitation." Though his methods have been harsh, they have seemed justified by the widespread Venezuelan prosperity directly attributable to President Gomez's driving, kinetic leadership. Dictator Castro had utterly scared off all foreign investors. But under Dictator Gomez investments exceeding...
Superficially the 20 United States of Venezuela possess a Government and Constitution modeled-like Brazil's-on that of the 48 United States of North America; but decades of practice have enabled shrewd General Gomez to circumvent or pervert almost all these scrap-of-paper safeguards of Democracy...