Word: roosevelt
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Neither Theodore Roosevelt nor Kaiser Wilhelm II seemed to have much success in taming Dictator Castro. Also a series of British, French, and Dutch naval blockades of the Venezuelan coast, or parts of it, did not bring Dictator-President Cipriano Castro perceptibly to reason. He started out in 1900 by springing a successful coup d'etat, and grandiloquently announcing to the world that he proposed to unite Venezuela with Colombia and Ecuador in a league "against encroachment by Yankees or Europeans." Eight years later the catalog of his unparalleled audacities included: 1) repudiating Venezuelan bonded debts to European investors...
Died. Joseph Bucklin Bishop, 81, able Manhattan journalist (Tribune, Evening Post, Globe, 1870-1905), Secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission (1905-14), Roosevelt biographer; suddenly; in Manhattan...
...Circolo Italiano will hold a dinner at the Harvard Union on Tuesday, December 18, at 6.30 o'clock, it was announced last night by James Roosevelt '30, president...
...from the Atlantic to Bogota in eight hours, when the boat trip ($80) takes from eight to sixteen days, according to the state of the river. Only by air could Mr. & Mrs. Hoover drop briefly in on President Mendez-and no U. S. President or President-Elect since Theodore Roosevelt has made bold to enter an airplane...
...families of Peru are in no hurry to pump education or ideas into toilers who work so cheaply. Chief of the aristocratic oligarchs is Augusto B. Leguia, who is now relishing his third term as President of Peru. Twenty years ago Señor Leguia was called "The Bantam Roosevelt of Peru." Since "T. R." is now dead and "Il Duce" has risen, President Leguia is sometimes called, "The Bantam Mussolini of Peru"-except by admirers who hail him as greater than either of his nickname-sakes...