Word: juan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long (20 years) has Juan Vicente Gomez been Dictator-President of Venezuela that when he positively and repeatedly refused to circumvent his country's constitution "just once more" and accept a fourth term (TIME, May 13), the Venezuelan Congress knew not what to do. Visions of impending revolution, rapine and pillage beset the leaderless legislators. Bundling into motor busses, they rode out again last week from Caracas to Maracay, where the old Dictator, now 72, holds court on his model farm, a Latin-American George Washington at a tropical Mt. Vernon. Seated under his favorite rubber tree, the blue...
...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...
Following is the program which will be rendered by an orchestra of 80 directed by Alfredo Casella: Entrance of the Guests into the Wart burg, "Tannhauser" Wagner Minuet Boccherini Suite from "Carmen" Bizet Overture to "The Roman Carnival" Berlioz "Don Juan," Tone Poem R. Strauss "Espana," Rhapsody Chabrier First Hungarian Dance Brahms Intermezzo, "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagni Marche Slave Tchalkovsky
Meanwhile the Mexican revolution (TIME, March 11 et seq.) was rapidly petering out. The diminished rebel army under General José Gonzalo Escobar retained control of only one state, Sonora. Federal General Juan Andreu Almazan was collecting an army of 10,000 men to complete the mopping...
Eagle-eyed hotel proprietors in newly popularized Antibes and Juan-les-Pins watched the Morgan yacht, too, for Mor gan yachts are newsworthy and news may be made into publicity for budding resorts. And though yachts seldom-have any religious significance, churchmen throughout the world wondered about the Morgan yacht. For on it was Cosmo Gordon Lang, bachelor Archbishop of Canter bury, and where the Archbishop went was important...