Word: south
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...TIME'S best boosters in South America I have often shown your magazine to my Uruguayan friends as the outstanding information publication of my country. Consequently, after boasting proudly of TIME'S accuracy in reporting even minor events of interest, I was quite astonished to read in my copy of Dec. 3, just received, on page 7 under "Chief Yeoman," that Mr. Hoover's complete itinerary included Montevideo (URAGUAY...
...When we were about fifty miles south of Zubeir, shots rang out fired at a distance of about 200 yards, but nobody was in view owing to the undergrowth. Our Arab driver immediately turned the car around and with great presence of mind, swerved and went full speed...
...doing so, he seemed to have commandeered most of the power of New York. Long lines of policemen snapped their fingers on the crossroads of the theatre district. At 45th Street, 25 policemen held back the North-South cars and pedestrians while the East-West bound passed...
...clergy. Undoubtedly newsphotographers will snap his picture, reporters take down his parting words. In one of his suitcases will be a parchment scroll hailing him as the most significant U. S. contributor to religious progress for 1928. He is Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South...