Word: terras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tethys Deep" was bridged by Central America was indicated by Yale's Dr. Hellmut de Terra. With the cooling and shrinking of earth's underlying shell of magmatic (semifluid) rock, the northern and southern land masses drew toward each other. Pinched between them, the bottom of the "Tethys Deep" wrinkled, bulged upward, finally, as the pressure increased, emerged from the water to form a bridge...
Third kick was a dictatorship. Dictator Terra appointed his own junta of eight, dissolved Congress and sent police to arrest the Administrative nine. Seven were caught. One, Alfredo Garcia Morales, hid in the Argentine Embassy. Baltazar Brum, facing the end of parliamentary order in Uruguay, met police with a revolver in each hand, wounded two detectives and took refuge in the Spanish Legation. Soon Idealist Brum came out of "dishonorable" hiding and died by his own hand on his own doorstep. His wife stoically carried his body inside. In Montevideo, Brum's death hurt Dictator Terra's prestige...
Last week the censored newspapers' only reproaches spoke from great white spaces. Accused of suppressing two, Terra replied that troops had merely shut off their electrical power, stopping the presses. Montevideo businessmen were satisfied. But inland the estancia owners and peons awoke from their doze, waited in vain for news from Montevideo. They picked up an occasional scanty radio report from the Argentine, spread rumor and uneasiness by word of mouth. Observers agreed that the Constitution from which all power had leaked last week was probably unrefillable. What the new Constitution would be depended on how well Dictator Terra...
Meanwhile Uruguayans looked across the Brazilian border to Uruguay's oldtime revolutionary Saraiva brothers, sons of General Saraiva who died in action in 1904. To forestall the Brothers Saraiva, Dictator Terra from his firehouse outlawed all elected provincial governments and put in Federal "interventors" of his own. At the same time he issued eleven other decrees establishing reforms of economy and centralization...
...Gabriel Terra, 60, heavy-set and heavy-jowled, looks not unlike President Harding. Uruguayans have never considered him the dictator type. A graduate of Montevideo University, he early gave up law practice to become a regular Colorado Party man. He won a name as a smart, respectable politician by vigorously backing public works: rural free schools, roads, harbors, airports, fertilizer factories, hydro-electric plants. He put through Uruguay's high tariff on agricultural products. His jobs: Minister of the Interior, Minister of Industries, Minister to Italy, Special Ambassador to Argentina, member of the National Administrative Council. A year after...