Word: gomez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principal boom 17000% in less than a decade! Still more interesting, if possible, is the fact, that Venezuela's stupendous oil tax revenues all pour into the Treasury of one man, an absolute dictator of 20 years' standing, the stern and venerable President Juan Vicente Gomez...
Just as General Gomez came before Venezuela's oil boom so he came after General Cipriano Castro. General Castro's name is the key that unlocks the cipher of President Gomez's enigmatic Power...
...wish you would have your type-founders get you up a lower-case "&." It would ease the pain of many of us old-time printers, and decidedly improve the appearance of the couplet. The Spanish use of "y" as in "Gomez y Soto" to indicate the paternal and maternal names of an individual gives a much better appearance than would the use of a capital...
...executive's name with General Obregon's murder. It scoffed at Calles' "thirst for justice," declared that his own guilt was obvious to anyone who had followed, step by step, events in Mexico. "The road which led him, together with Obregon, over the corpses of Carranza, Gomez and Serrano, led Calles fatally to pass also over Obregon's dead body ... did his best to hide the key that makes the truth obvious...
...Obregon. They are friends, agrarians, Nationalists, anti-Roman Catholics. They have caused the. Constitution to be amended so that a former President (General Obregon, 1920-24) can be re-elected (TIME, Nov. 1, 1926). They have caused to be shot as revolutionaries the only other presidential candidates, General Arnulfo Gomez (he of the Kaiser-like mustachios) and General Francisco Serrano (TIME, Nov. 21 et ante}. Therefore, General Alvaro Obregon, stern, one-armed warrior, rich rancher, ruthless patriot, was unanimously elected President of Mexico last week?there being no other candidate...